Authors

Dr Els van Ooijen has a private psychotherapy, counselling and supervision practice in Bristol and co-teaches a Diploma/MA in Consultative Supervision at the University of South Wales. Her website is: http://www.nepenthe.org.uk

Brendan Stone has lived with mental health problems for nearly 40 years. He lives in Sheffield and has worked extensively with users of mental health services. He is a Professor in the School of English at the University of Sheffield.

Jennifer Maidman (Dip. Couns. MBACP) is a freelance singer, musician and producer who has been making music for over forty years. She appears on hundreds of recordings and has performed internationally with Joan Armatrading, Gerry Rafferty, David Sylvian, Robert Wyatt, The Proclaimers, Bonnie Raitt and Terry Reid  amongst others.…

Judith Haire graduated from Sheffield University.  She is widely published in the field of mental health.  Her current research centres on the pre and perinatal links to childhood trauma, the link between childhood adversity and psychoses; and how intergenerational dysfunctionality in families is linked to psychoses and other…

David Kalisch M.A. (Cantab), Dip.Soc.Admin. UKCP, UKAHPP(Aff.Member), AHP. After an early career in social work and then teaching, David trained in neo-Reichian Gestalt and subsequently in Core Process Psychotherapy. He founded The Centre for Humanistic Psychology and Counselling in Exeter in 1988 and has designed…

Charley Baker is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Nottingham. She has a BA and MA in literature and a PhD on psychosis and postmodernism from Royal Holloway, University of London. During her studies, Charley worked in both community adult and inpatient adolescent mental health for the…

Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. His publications include Psychotherapy and its Discontents (with Windy Dryden, Open University Press, 1992), Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Sage, 1999), Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2010), Failure (Acumen, 2012) and The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3rd edn. …

Sarah Keenan is a clinical psychologist working in Nottingham city community mental health services with people who experience enduring mental health difficulties. Sarah’s previous publications and clinical interests focus on how social context influences distress, and how and why these influences and expressions of distress are often medicalised…

Bob Diamond is a Clinical Psychologist and Mental Health Advisor currently working in Higher Education. He is interested in enduring mental health difficulties and drawing on the ideas and practice from critical and community psychology. When previously working in adult mental health services, he sought to establish a psychological presence…

Steven Coles is a Clinical Psychologist in adult mental health services in Nottingham. He is questioning of how power is used and misused within mental health services and society. The stories recounted to him of fear, misery and madness has helped him to understand the social and material nature of…