j.cromby@lboro.ac.uk www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~hujc4/
I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Loughborough University. Previously, I have worked in other academic posts and in drug addiction, intellectual impairment and mental health settings. My research focuses on the ways that social influence and bodies are woven together. It draws upon resources from social science, psychology and neuroscience, and addresses topics such as emotion, paranoia, 'depression' and fear of crime. I am co-editor of the journal 'Subjectivity'
bob.diamond@ntlworld.com
I work as a Clinical Psychologist in adult mental health services, Nottingham. I think it is essential in our work to question some of the assumptions and limitations of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Drawing on a critical perspective I am interested in developing services that are more meaningful to people experiencing enduring distress. I am also interested in considering the threats to the integrity of psychology as a profession and what can be done to counter this.
Paul
Kelly
paul.m.kelly@ucd.ie
I
trained as a clinical psychologist in Birmingham, and was involved in
setting up the West Midlands Community and Critical Psychology Interest
Group and the Midlands Psychology Group. I was also active in the Irish
Mental Health Forum. Since returning to live in Ireland in 2004, I have
been working as a psychologist in the Student Counselling Service at
University College Dublin and am involved in the Irish Critical Psychology
Network.
Paul
Moloney
paul.moloney@sssft.nhs.uk
I am a
Counselling Psychologist working in a community based Adult Learning
Disability Team in Shropshire. I have worked in the fields of adult mental
health services, addictions counselling and community and social work,
and was involved in setting up the West Midlands Community and Critical
Psychology Interest Group and the Midlands Psychology Group.
pennypriest@supanet.com www.shropsych.org/pennypriest.htm
I was brought up in Hull, studied psychology at Manchester University and started work as a teacher in East London. I now live and work in Shropshire, having trained as a clinical psychologist at Birmingham University. I became interested in critical and community psychology perspectives during my own experience of being seen by a clinical psychologist who mentioned the work of David Smail. I made contact with David, who introduced me to Paul Moloney and the West Midlands Critical and Community Psychology Group, which eventually spawned the Midlands Psychology Group.
janine.soffe-caswell@herefordpct.nhs.uk
I was born and brought up in Liverpool. I qualified as a clinical psychologist whilst living and training in Cardiff, South Wales. I currently work in Leominster, near Hereford. During the years I have been working and learning in psychology, I have come to take an increasingly considered view of what psychologists, including myself, are able to offer that can be helpful for other people. This can be a difficult stance to hold onto in what can sometimes seem like an exclusive focus in our society (and many others) on immediately ‘fixing’ or ‘curing’ human distress. I became more interested in critical approaches to the mental health system and being a mental health worker during my training. This fuelled my interest in trying to support those people diagnosed with mental health problems to become more actively involved in their care. I also became more interested in the research and writings of people such as David Smail. I became a member of the Midlands Psychology Group via my contact with fellow member Penny Priest.
David Smail
david@davidsmail.info www.davidsmail.info
I
entered the NHS as a clinical psychologist in 1961, and
in 1964 joined Tom Caine's psychology department at Claybury
Hospital in Essex, which was at that time pioneering
the 'therapeutic community' approach to the treatment
of mental disorder. I
moved to Nottingham in 1968, where I remained as head
of clinical psychology services until 1993. I retired
fully from the NHS in 1998. I held the honorary post
of Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University
of Nottingham from 1979 until 2000. I now live in Birmingham.