People involved in creating this site                                                             

Dr Jonathan Bindman
is a consultant psychiatrist with a recovery and support team based in a community mental health team run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). He is also Clinical Director for Lambeth Adult Mental Health Services run by SLaM. He started his career in mental health services as a nursing assistant, then studied medicine. While training in psychiatry he worked at Friern Barnet hospital at the time of its closure, which led to an ‘enduring appreciation of the need for effective community mental health services’. He worked as a psychiatrist at The Maudsley Hospital, and then joined the Institute of Psychiatry as a researcher, working on studies of community mental health services. At the same time he worked as a consultant psychiatrist in a community mental health team, and was involved in the development of a home treatment team.

Lucy Bristow
is a freelance camerawoman and part of the Inside Out team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk. She shoots TV dramas, features, documentaries and films for the web and is experienced at working both on film and digitally.

Dr Brock Chisholm
is a clinical psychologist at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in London run by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, which offers treatment to people with post traumatic stress disorder, and works with charities offering support and treatment to victims of human rights abuses. He previously worked in early intervention for psychosis services run by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. His research work focuses on people who experience both PTSD and psychosis.

Professor Tom Craig
is Professor of Community and Social Psychiatry in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist, working for services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. These include SHARP, the Social Inclusion and Hope Recovery Project, a service for people with schizophrenia in the south London borough of Lambeth. SHARP aims not just to offer people treatment and care, but also to help them find jobs, improve their family and social lives and have a reduced reliance on continuing mental health care.

Gabriela Enis
is a film editor and part of the Inside Out team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk. She has more than 20 years' of experience in British television and in recent years has been making films for the web. She teaches the art and technique of editing and how to use relevant software programmes in film schools and training centres around the UK. She also teaches documentary film making in schools.

Dr Daniel Freeman
is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and a consultant clinical psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His work focuses upon developing the psychological understanding and treatment of psychosis. He is one of the world’s leading experts on paranoia, and is lead author of Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts (2006), Paranoia (2008), Know Your Mind (2009) and Use Your Head (2010).

Sophie Gibson
is a designer who is part of the Inside Out team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk

Colin Hemmings
is a consultant psychiatrist in learning disabilities for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Dr Claire Henderson
is a researcher in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry and a Consultant Psychiatrist in a community mental health team run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Much of her research currently focuses on developing ways to combat discrimination against people with mental health problems, including the evaluation of the anti-stigma campaign Time to Change. She also works on the CRIMSON study, which is testing how effective joint crisis plans are, and whether preparing for a relapse can help avoid compulsory treatment.

Alice Jackson
is an art therapist and Head of Arts Therapies in the Lambeth Directorate at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She manages a team of art, music and dance/movement therapists and also works in a community-based team where she sees people for individual art therapy. Since 1997, she has been curator of the Adamson Collection. In this role, she manages, organises, publicises and catalogues more than 5,000 works of art amassed by Edward Adamson, one of the founders of British art therapy.

Dr Nadine Keen
is a clinical psychologist, currently working as a therapist on a research project testing cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) designed for people who experience command hallucinations. She also works at the PIcUP clinic at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, which offers CBT to people with psychosis, and as a course tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT for Psychosis at the Institute of Psychiatry. She previously worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in London (run by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust), offering specialist care to people with post traumatic stress disorder, and as a clinical psychologist on the London Bombings Screen and Treat Programme. 

Professor Elizabeth Kuipers
has led the redevelopment and relaunch of mentalhealthcare.org.uk. A Professor of Clinical Psychology, she heads the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She also works in mental health services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on psychosis and has included the development of work with families of people with schizophrenia and cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She chaired the group responsible for the development of the updated NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) Guideline for Schizophrenia, published in March 2009. She is the co-author of Living with Mental Illness, a book for relatives and friends (Souvenir Press).

Professor Philip McGuire
is a Professor of Psychiatry and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research mainly focuses on using neuroimaging to study the structure and function of the brain. He is also clinical director of OASIS (Outreach and Support in South London), a service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust for young people experiencing changes in their mood, think or normal routine.

Raselle Miller
is a Psychology graduate who is part of the Inside Out team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk. Her role has been to consult with carers’ groups and talk to individuals who help support a relative with a diagnosis of psychosis to find out their information needs.

Professor Robin Murray
is Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research focuses on investigating the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and developing better treatments. Until his retirement in 2009, he worked on the National Psychosis Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant psychiatrist, caring for people referred from across the UK.

Dr Juliana Onwumere
is a consultant clinical psychologist working at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London. Juliana has worked with Professor Elizabeth Kuipers for the last nine years as a trainer and research therapist in family interventions. She has research and clinical interest in psychosis, particularly issues related to families and improving the development, training, and wider provision of evidence-based family interventions. She is currently the Joint Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Diplomas in Family Interventions in Psychosis and CBT for Psychosis at the IoP. 

Dr Carmine Pariante
is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, and a consultant perinatal psychiatrist in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.  Dr Pariante and his co-workers in the Perinatal Psychiatry & Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology team at the IoP are studying the role of stress hormones in the development of mental health problems, and investigating whether these hormones affect the way drugs that are prescribed for mental health problems work. His research focuses on depression, first-episode psychosis and psychiatric problems during pregnancy. Dr Pariante has received several prestigious research awards, including two Young Investigator Awards from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the Young Minds in Psychiatry Award by the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), and both the junior and the senior British Association for Psychopharmacology Clinical Awards. He is also an Associate Editor for Psychological Medicine. His dream is that new treatments targeting the stress system will soon be available for depression and psychosis.  

Dr Emmanuelle Peters
is the Director of the Psychological Interventions Clinic for Outpatients with Psychosis (PICuP) service, an award-winning service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that offers cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Dr Peters has specialised in psychosis for the last two decades. As well as cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, her research interests include the link between psychosis and spirituality.

Vanessa Pinfold
is Deputy Director of Knowledge and Learning at Rethink, the mental health charity.

Gabrielle Richards
is the professional head of Occupational Therapy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a Fellow of the College of Occupational Therapists. She is also responsible for the line management of physiotherapy, dietetics and welfare services run by SLaM, and chairs the Trust’s Board that oversees the Social Inclusion, Rehabilitation and Recovery Strategy. She has worked in mental health for the majority of the career, working with older adults, on hospital wards and in community-based teams. Her particular interest is in clinical care that addresses the whole person, attending to both the physical and psychological needs of each individual.

Dr Mike Slade
is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and a consultant clinical psychologist, working in services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.  He runs a programme of research about recovery and is investigating ways of changing mental health services so they better support individual people’s goals and aspirations. He co-authored Making Recovery a Reality (2008), published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and his most recent books are Personal Recovery and Mental Illness (Cambridge University Press) and 100 Ways to Support Recovery (Rethink).

Jane Smith
is a writer who is part of the Inside Out team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk

Professor George Szmukler
is a Professor of Psychiatry and Society at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, where he was previously Dean. His research has included work with families of people with a diagnosis of psychosis, and he now focuses on work about reducing compulsion and coercion in psychiatric care through, for example, the use of advance statements. He is also involved in research around mental health law. Professor Szmukler is an associate director of the National Institute for Mental Health Research Mental Health Research Network and leads a programme of work about Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research.

Professor David Taylor
is Chief Pharmacist at The Maudsley Hospital, an honorary Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College London. He has been the lead author of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, used by pharmacists and doctors around the UK, since they were first published in 1993. Professor Taylor has written or edited several books, including Schizophrenia in Focus (Pharmaceutical Press), The use of Drugs in Psychiatry (Gaskell) and Case Studies in Psychopharmacology (Dunitz). He was previously President of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists and Chairman of the UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group.

Professor Graham Thornicroft
is Professor of Community Psychiatry and Head of the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist and Direct of Research and Development at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His research includes studies about the extent of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems around the world, and developing ways to combat stigma. His book Shunned: Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness (Oxford University Press, Oxford) was named by the British Medical Association as Mental Health Book of the Year in 2007. He is involved in several collaborations that seek to better develop services and treatment in low income countries, and his areas of expertise also include service user involvement in mental health research.

This page was updated on 29/7/10
Next page update due: October 2010