About the Authors
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Jessica Gray (pseudonym) is an ex-service user from the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service, who was diagnosed with paranoid, borderline, antisocial, and avoidant personality disorders. In this contribution, she writes about her experience of living with personality disorder.
Steve Pearce is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Programme Director of the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service, a clinical personality disorder service based in the United Kingdom, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Oxford University. He writes on the relationship between personality disorder, ethics and philosophy in psychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at steve.pearce@psych.ox.ac.uk
Jill Peay is a Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science with interests in both civil and criminal mental health law, and in the treatment of offenders. She is the author of Mental Health and Crime (2010) Routledge, and Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law (2003) Hart Publishing. She can be contacted via e-mail at j.peay@lse.ac.uk
Hanna Pickard is a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Neuroethics, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is also a therapist in the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service, a NHS Therapeutic Community for personality disorder. Her research aims to integrate analytic philosophy of mind with clinical data and practice. Her current project explores questions of agency, responsibility, and morality within personality disorder and related psychiatric disorders, such as addiction, eating disorders, and psychoses. She has also published on the idea of mental illness, delusions, self-knowledge, action, the body image, emotions, and other minds. She can be contacted via e-mail at h.pickard@gmail.com
Nancy Nyquist Potter is a professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville, where she teaches ethical theory, Aristotle, and other foundational courses as well as philosophy and mental illness, and race, gender, and mental illness. She is also core faculty in the Interdisciplinary Masters Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Her most recent book is on Borderline Personality Disorder (Mapping the Edges and the In-Between: A Critical Analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder; Oxford University Press 2009) and she is now publishing work on defiance and conduct disorder. She serves on a local hospital ethics committee as well as an ethics council that oversees the policies and practices of several hospitals, and she participates as part of the health care team in Emergency Psychiatric Services. She is President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. She can be contacted via e-mail at nancy.potter@louisville.edu
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Still-man Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at [End Page 249] Duke University. He has served as Co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and Vice-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. His current research focuses mainly on moral psychology and neuroscience. He can be contacted via e-mail at ws66@duke.edu
Peter Zachar is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Auburn University, Montgomery. He studies and writes on philosophical issues in psychiatric classification. He can be contacted via e-mail at pzachar@aum.edu [End Page 250]
