Authors

Francis Biley (1958-2012) was Associate Professor at the University of Bournemouth. He had particular methodological interests in historiography, autoethnography, unitary appreciative inquiry and using the arts and humanities in health care. Clinically, his interests were in the built care environment, and in the service user movement in mental health and…

Diana Rose is a social scientist and has also been a user of mental health services all her adult life. After a very difficult time in a lecturing job, followed by five years as a 'community mental patient', she brought her two identities together to do user-led research. This was…

Alison Faulkner works as a freelance researcher, trainer and consultant in the mental health field. She has over 20 years experience in social research, and has worked for Rethink, The Mental Health Foundation, the National Centre for Social Research, Mind and The Sainsbury Centre. Alison is herself a mental health service…

Angela Sweeney was part of her local survivor movement as a teenager and young adult, and conducted her first survivor research project as an undergraduate student in 1998.  Sometime after graduating, she joined the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health to work on a study of the British Survivor Movement (On…

Dr Christina Moutsou acquired her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1999. She trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and she has worked in one of its houses for over five years. She currenltly works in private practice and as a sessional lecturer of psychoanalysis…

Dr Lucy King trained as a biologist, but after several years of research abandoned the laboratory and microscope and turned to a more directly people-focused occupation. She trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and remains closely involved with its teaching programme. She lives in Cambridge, where she has…

Georgina Wakefield is a media volunteer for Rethink and has helped them with many projects including their anti-stigma campaign. Anyone who hears Georgie speak or reads her books cannot help be moved by her passion to improve services for all carers and users and raise awareness of some of the…

Jacqui Dillon is a respected speaker, writer and activist, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, psychosis, dissociation and recovery. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Honorary Research Fellow in the School…

Dirk Corstens works as a social psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his own private practice. He has taught courses on Working with Voices with Ron Coleman and Eleanor Longden in the UK, France and Australia, and with Trevor Eyles and Birgitte Bjerregaard in Denmark. He has conducted research on constructs…