The Representation of

Illness in Clinical and Cultural Space

Saturday 23 November 2019

Speakers’ Biographies

Richard Carvalho is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a training and supervising analyst with The Society of Analytical Psychology and the BPF, a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. He was Consultant Psychotherapist at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London for many years.

Peter Shoenberg is an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and Liason Officer for the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Medical Student Psychotherapy Scheme Working Group. He was formerly Head of UCLH Department of Psychotherapy. He is author of " Psychosomatics. The Uses of Psychotherapy in Psychosomatic Illness" and co-editor of " Learning about Emotions in Illness".

Michael Molnar is a former director of the London. He has edited The Diary of 1929-1939 (Hogarth, 1992) and published Looking Through Freud’s Photos (2015)

Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, cultural commentator, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the co-author with John Forrester of Freud’s Women. Amongst her other books are Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors, Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness; and Losing the Dead. She was for many years Chair of the Freud Museum London, President of English Pen and is a visiting professor at King’s College, London.

Neil Vickers is professor of English Literature and the health humanities at King's College London. He worked for many years in public health and has a strong interest in psychoanalysis and the body. He is currently writing a book (with Derek Bolton of the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience) entitled Shared Life and the Experience of Illness.

Dr Joseph Calabrese is Head of the Medical Anthropology Section at UCL and a registered Clinical Psychologist. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he combined training in anthropology and psychology. He completed postdoctoral clinical training at the Cambridge Hospital, subsequently holding research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Oxford. His research explores diverse approaches to understanding and treating mental illness and has included combined anthropological fieldwork and clinical practice with Native Americans and in Bhutan.

Ann Scott is a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, working in private practice, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Psychotherapy. She is the author, with the late Mary Barnes, of Something Sacred: Conversations, Writings, Paintings (1989) and of Real Events Revisited: Fantasy, Memory and Psychoanalysis (1996) and is the literary executor of Isabel Menzies Lyth. She was a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s Advisory Group on Research and the Evidence Base.

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