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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 9.1 (2002) 97-98



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Gwen Adshead is Consultant Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health Trust and Consultant Psychiatrist, Traumatic Stress Clinic, Camden and Islington NHS and Social Care Trust.

John Campbell is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has published on philosophy of psychology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Past, Space and Self was published by MIT Press in 1994, and Reference and Consciousness by OUP in 2002.

Annalisa Coliva was awarded a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews in 2001 with a thesis entitled "Immunity to Error through Misidentification and the Trilemma about the Self," written under the supervision of Professor Crispin Wright. Doctor Coliva moved back to Italy for a 2-year postdoctorate course of study in the Philosophy Department of the University of Bologna. She is the recipient of a 2-year grant from le Fond national Suisse pour la recherche, for carrying out a project on subjectivity and self-knowledge under the direction of Professor Gianfranco Soldati of the University of Fribourg. Recent publications include papers on Moore, Wittgenstein, skepticism and common sense, the first person, and the philosophy of perception. Together with Dr Elisabetta Sacchi, Dr Coliva is co-author of Singular Thoughts. Perceptual Demonstrative Thoughts and I-Thoughts, Bologna, 2001.

Karel de Pauw is a Consultant Psychiatrist with a specialist interest in delusional misidentification.

Mona Gupta is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Doctor Gupta practices consultation-liaison psychiatry at Hamilton Health Sciences Hospital and conducts research in bioethics.

L. Rex Kay is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Staff Psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is a Member of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and serves on the Faculty and Board of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology in Toronto.

John McMillan is University Lecturer in Public Health Ethics at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was Hastings Center Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is co-author with Grant Gillett of Consciousness and Intentionality, which is about the role of intentionality in understanding consciousness and psychopathology.

Paul E. Mullen is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Monash University, Medical School and Clinical Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health.He has over l00 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is co-author with Greg White of Jealousy: Theory Research and Clinical Strategies, published by Guilford Press, New York; [End Page 97] co-author with David Fergusson of Child Sexual Abuse: An Evidence Based Perspective, published by Sage, California; and co-author with Michele Pathé and Rosemary Purcell of Stalkers and Their Victims, published by Cambridge University Press, which was awarded the American Psychiatric Association's Guttmacher Award in 2001. His current research interests are stalking, the relationships between mental disorder and criminal behavior, and the long-term effects of child abuse.

James Phillips is in the private practice of psychiatry and is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine. He is interested in the interface of philosophy and has written on hermeneutic theory in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, on the role of narrativity in psychiatric theory, and on technical reason in psychiatry. He is Editor of the Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Current publications include "Technical Reason in DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value," in Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values Mental Disorders, and the DSMs, edited by J. Sadler, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002; and "Managed Care's Reconstruction of Human Existence: The Triumph of Technical Reason," in Theoretical Medicine, in press.

Steven Sverdlik is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is interested in moral responsibility and the moral evaluation of human action. His recent publications include "Motive and Rightness" in Ethics (1996), and "Kant, Non-accidentalness and the Availability of Moral Worth" in The Journal of Ethics (2001).

David Ward is a Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department, University of Otago...

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