About the Authors

Mark Bratton is currently Anglican Chaplain at the University of Warwick where he has been involved in teaching postgraduate students in the philosophy and ethics of mental health. He was, formerly, a practicing barrister. He can be contacted at University of Warwick, The Chaplaincy Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.

Caroline Brett is currently pursuing a doctorate in Psychology examining processes involved in clinical and nonclinical incidence of anomalous experience. She read Philosophy & Psychology at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1998. In 2000 she studied for the Master's of Science in Philosophy of Mental Disorder at King's College London and the Institute of Psychiatry. She can be contacted at Caroline Box P 067, Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF. E-mail: c.brett@iop.kcl.ac.uk.

K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. He is the Founder Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is co-editor, with John Sadler, of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. With Katherine Morris, John Sadler, and Giovanni Stanghellini, he is launching a new book series from Oxford University Press on International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.

Mike Gane (Ph.D. London (LSE), 1973) is professor of sociology at Loughborough University. His main interests are in the sociology of power and gender, and the history of social analysis and theory. He has published extensively on French sociology and French philosophy.

Mike Jackson is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in North West Wales NHS Trust, specializing in psychosocial interventions for psychosis, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Medical and Social Care Research at the University of Wales, Bangor. With Mike Startup, he has recently completed the North Wales Trial of CBT for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. He can be contacted at The Hergest Unit, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, LL57 2PW, UK. Telephone +44 01248 384251; fax: +44 01248 371397; e-mail: m.c.jackson@bangor.ac.uk.

Marek Marzanski is a consultant psychiatrist in general psychiatry in Coventry. He holds an MA in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Theology from the Pontifical Academy in Warsaw. He can be contacted at Consultant Psychiatrist Coventry Primary Care Trust, The Caludon Centre, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2TE.

Victoria Margree is in her third year of a full-time DPhil at the University of Sussex. Her thesis concerns the epistemological tradition ranging from Gaston Bachelard through George Canguilhem to Michel Foucault. She is using the work of Jacques Derrida to interrogate the logic of scientific rationality that emerges in this tradition, in particular around the notion of the epistemological break. Her concern is to try to demonstrate a kind of "madness" that inheres in this rationality without therefore destroying it as rationality. She is also currently teaching an undergraduate course in theoretical approaches to English literature.

Michael McGhee is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and co-editor of Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Routledge). He can be contacted at Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX. Telephone: 0151 794 2791; fax: 0151 794 2789; e-mail: mcghee@liv.ac.uk.

The Rt Revd Professor Stephen Sykes was appointed Principal of St. John's College from September 1999 and at the same time he was appointed to a personal Chair in the Department of Theology of Durham University. He was previously Bishop of Ely and is now an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Durham. He is Chair of the Church of England Doctrine Commission and of the Inter Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission. Professor Sykes has written extensively on modern theology and Anglicanism, and has special interests in mental health and medical ethics. He is married to Joy...