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Michaela Amering is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, with a focus of interest on psychosis, and the development of the families and the users' movements. Her experience also includes work in community psychiatry and research in the United Kingdom and the United States. She is currently serving as secretary of the AEP Section on 'Womens' Mental Health' and as secretary of the WPA Section on 'Public Policy and Psychiatry.' Recent works include Recovery in mental health. Reshaping scientific and clinical responsibilities (Amering and Schmolke, London: Wiley-Blackwell 2009; and Handbook of service user involvement in mental health research Amering, Schrank, and Wallcraft (eds.). London: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009). She can be contacted via e-mail at: michaela.amering@meduniwien.ac.at
Bennett Foddy is the current Harold T. Shapiro Fellow in Bioethics and Princeton University's Center for Human Values. He works on the ethics and metaphysics of drug addiction and human enhancement. He recently published "Can addicted heroin users consent to the prescription of their drug?" in Bioethics with Prof. Savulescu. He can be contacted via e-mail at: bfoddy@princeton.edu
Peter Hadreas is currently an Associate Professor in Philosophy at San José State University. His research has been primarily in phenomenology, philosophical psychology, and ancient philosophy. He has published various articles that apply phenomenological methods to psychological and neurobiological topics, such as, "Intentionality and the neurobiology of pleasure," in Studies in History and the Philosophy of Biology and the Biomedical Sciences (30:219–236, 1999), and "Phenomenology and the incest taboo," in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (33:203–22, 2002). He can be contacted via e-mail at: phadreas@earthlink.net
Malcolm Horne is Deputy Director of the Howard Florey Institute, Conjoint Professor of Medicine in the University of Melbourne's Centre for Neuroscience, and Senior Consultant in Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, specializing in disorders of movement and frontal lobe disorders. His research relates to Parkinson's disease and to the mechanisms of action of dopamine in frontal lobe function and dysfunction. He can be reached via e-mal at: malcolm.horne@florey.edu.au
Eric Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. A longstanding member of the Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group, he has published widely in the philosophy of psychiatry. His most recent book is Body-subjects and disordered minds: treating the whole person in psychiatry (Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at: e.matthews@abdn.ac.uk [End Page 91]
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Department, Lewis University. She has published widely in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. She is the author of Neither victim nor survivor: Thinking toward a new humanity (forthcoming from Lexington Books in July, 2009). She can be contacted via e-mail at: nissimma@hotmail.com
Lennart Nordenfelt has been Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, Sweden, since 1987. He received his doctoral degree in theoretical philosophy at the University of Uppsala in 1974. Nordenfelt's research focus lies in action theory, philosophy of medicine (including psychiatry), and the philosophy of health and welfare. His monographs include On the nature of health (1987/1995), On crime, punishment and psychiatric care (1992), Action, ability and health (2000), and Rationality and compulsion: Applying action theory to psychiatry (2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at: lennart.nordenfelt@ihs.liu.se
Jennifer Radden is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Ethics Consultant at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Jennifer Radden has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. Recent work includes Moody minds distempered: Essays on melancholy and depression (2008). She is a past President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. She can be contacted via e-mail at: Jennifer.radden@umb.edu
Mark Rego is a psychiatrist in full-time clinical practice. His...
