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Benjamin Buck is a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying under David Penn, PhD. His primary research interests are metacognition and social cognition in psychotic disorders, as well as innovations in measuring each of these constructs and their impact on functioning. He can be contacted via email at bebuck@email.unc.edu
Victoria Y. Allison-Bolger is a former Consultant Psychiatrist now working for the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health). Her interest is in descriptive psychopathology and applying the methods of ordinary language philosophy to the analysis of psychotic symptoms. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health from Warwick and is studying for a PhD at Lancaster University. She can be contacted via email at vyallisonbolger@icloud.com.
Jay Hamm is a Clinical Psychologist at Midtown Community Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he offers recovery-oriented psychotherapy to persons with schizophrenia. His scholarly interests include the subjective experience in schizophrenia, metacognition, and integrative psychotherapy approaches. Recent publication: Hamm, J.A., Leonhardt, B.L., Fogley, R.L., & Lysaker P.H. (2014). Literature as an exploration of the phenomenology of schizophrenia: Disorder and recovery in Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son. Medical Humanities. Published online first. He can be contacted via email at jay.a.hamm@gmail.com
Mads Gram Henriksen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Center for Subjectivity Research and Psychiatric Center Hvidovre, University of Copenhagen. He has a dual background in philosophy (extended MA) and psychiatry (PhD). His work is conducted in the interface between philosophy and psychopathology. His main research areas are schizophrenia spectrum disorders, self-disorders, phenomenological psychopathology, and philosophy of psychiatry. Recent publications include “Self-disorders and schizophrenia: a phenomenological reappraisal of poor insight and noncompliance” (Schizophrenia Bulletin 2014;40:542–547) and “Disordered self in the schizophrenia spectrum: a clinical and research perspective” (Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2014;22:251–265). He can be contacted via email at mgh@hum.ku.dk
Eleanor Longden is a Researcher at the Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and a trustee of Intervoice (www.intervoiceonline.org). She lectures and publishes internationally on aspects of psychosis, trauma, and recovery and is the author of Learning from the Voices in my Head (TED Books, New York: 2013). She can be contacted via email at Eleanor-Longden@googlemail.com
Paul H. Lysaker is a Clinical Psychologist for the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center and a Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of [End Page 247] Medicine. He is the published author of more than 340 peer-reviewed articles, one monograph, and two edited books. His research interests include self-experience in psychotic disorder and the application of individual psychotherapy for adults experiencing serious mental illness. He can be contacted via email at plysaker@iupui.edu
Josef Parnas is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Consultant at Psychiatric Center Hvidovre, and a co-founder and Senior Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. He has been conducting studies in the psychopathology, epidemiology, etiology, and genetics of schizophrenia for many years. He has also been working at the interdisciplinary interface of psychopathology and philosophy. His current major interest is a study of anomalies of self-experience (i.e., self-disorders) in schizophrenia. He has published more than 200 scientific peer-reviewed publications. He is a co-editor of the series on Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry (K. S. Kendler and J. Parnas, eds.)—the third volume has just been published by Oxford University Press. He can be contacted via e-mail at jpa@hum.ku.dk
Matthew Parrott is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London. His research focuses on questions in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and psychiatry. He is especially interested in the nature of delusional cognition and has written on Bayesian approaches to explaining delusion. He is also currently working on understanding distinctive patterns of reasoning that arise in cases of schizophrenia. He can be contacted via email...
