Mary Boyle

Mary Boyle has worked mainly in clinical psychology education and training and in clinical posts in adult mental health and women’s health. She is a long-time critic of the medical/diagnostic approach and of individualistic approaches more generally in the health field. She is the author of Schizophrenia: A scientific delusion (2002) and Rethinking Abortion: Psychology, gender, power and the law (1997), as well as many articles and chapters on feminist approaches to women’s health and on problems of and alternatives to diagnostic models. She is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London.