About the Authors

Gillian Bendelow (SRN/RMN 1981 BA [Hons] 1988 PhD 1992 University of London) worked as a ward sister and Community Psychiatric Nurse in London's East End before entering higher education. Her doctoral work used theories of embodiment and emotion to develop a sociological approach to pain, and since to other aspects of health and medicine, including mental illness. She is currently a Reader in Medical Sociology at the University of Sussex, and her research has been published in a variety of journals, in co-authored books including Emotions in Social Life (1997), The Lived Body (1998), Gender Health and Healing (2002), Debating Biology (2003, Routledge), and a single-authored volume Pain and Gender (2000, Pearson Education). She can be contacted at the Department of Sociology, School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RN, England or by e-mail at G.A.Bendelow@sussex.ac.uk

Anthony Colombo is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Coventry. His research interests cover a range of mental health issues, including models of mental disorder, mental health recovery, and the relationship between abnormal and criminal behavior. He can be contacted by e-mail at a.colombo@coventry.ac.uk.

K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Warwick, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Oxford. With Kim Woodbridge and other colleagues at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (London), he is developing training programs in Values-Based Practice. He is a National Fellow for Values-Based Practice in the NIMHE (the National Institute for Mental Health in England, part of the Modernization Agency into the UK government's National Health Service). He can be contacted at the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK or by e-mail at k.w.m.fulford@warwick.ac.uk.

Christopher Heginbotham is Chief Executive of the Mental Health Act Commission, England and Wales, which was established under the Mental Health Act 1983 (England and Wales) to monitor the operation of the Act as it relates to detained patients. He has held various senior posts in NGOs and the National Health Service, UK, including National Director of Mind (the National Association for Mental Health) (1982-1988). He can be contacted at the Mental Health Act Commission, Maid Marian House, Hounds Gate, Nottingham NG1 6BG, England or by e-mail at chris.heginbotham@dial.pipex.com.

Michael Lacewingis lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. His research interests lie in the area of overlap between philosophy of mind, especially psychoanalysis, and ethics. He is the author of "Emotional Self-Awareness and Ethical Deliberation," Ratio XVIII, forthcoming in March 2005, and is currently working on the relation between the intentional content and feeling of an emotion and on the nature of unconscious emotion. He can be contacted at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HQ, UK, or by e-mail at m.lacewing@heythrop.ac.uk

Paul B. Lieberman (MD, Harvard, 1975) is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, and a staff psychiatrist at Butler Hospital, in Providence, Rhode Island. He has published in the areas of treatment outcome, psychotherapy, and philosophy of psychiatry. He can be contacted at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906 or by e-mail at Paul_Lieberman@brown.edu

Bruce N. Waller (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979) writes primarily on the significance of contemporary psychological research for questions of ethics, bioethics, and free will. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. He can be contacted at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 or by e-mail at bnwaller@ysu.edu

Richard Williams is Professor of Mental Health Strategy at the University of Glamorgan and a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust. He is also Chair of the...