Authors

Charley Baker

Charley Baker

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

Colin Feltham

Colin Feltham

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),…

Sarah Keenan

Sarah Keenan

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,…

Bob Diamond

Bob Diamond

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…

Steven Coles

Steven Coles

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…

Tamsin Walker (Illustrator)

Tamsin Walker (Illustrator)

Tamsin has considerable personal and professional experience of self-harm and currently works for a Mental Health Charity in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Her job often involves working with children and young people and raising awareness about mental health and…

Clare Shaw

Clare Shaw

With a wealth of personal experience of self-harm, Clare Shaw  is one of the UK's most prominent and authoritative voices on this issue. She is also 'one of Britain's most powerful an dynamic young poets' (Arvon Foundation); widely published and anthologised, and…

Courtenay Young

Courtenay Young

Courtenay Young is quite a well-known Body Psychotherapist, who has been practicing for over 30 years. He currently lives in Edinburgh ,UK, working both in the National Health Service and privately as a counsellor and psychotherapist. He has been heavily engaged for…

Theodor Itten

Theodor Itten

Theodor Itten is a Psychotherapist UKCP and Clinical Psychologist MBPS in private practice. He was an apprentice of psychoanalyst R.D. Laing and a student of Social Anthropologist Francis Huxley. From 1972–1981, was educated in Social Science, Psychology,…

Humair Yusuf

Humair Yusuf

Humair Yusuf, Ed.D. (candidate) in Counseling Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research and publications include representations of illness, indigenous healing and spirituality in counseling and psychotherapy. Humair is the publications editor for the…