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Gwen Adshead is forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. For the last 12 years, she has worked at Broadmoor High Security Hospital, carrying out individual and group therapy with offenders with mental disorders. Her research interests include moral reasoning in psychopaths, and the attachment experiences of child abusers. She has published on ethics and psychiatry in a wide variety of journals including PPP and the Journal of Medical Ethics. She can be contacted via e-mail at gwen.adshead@southernhealth.nhs.uk
Hannah Bowden is involved in the research project ‘Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study,’ funded by the German Research Foundation and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has research interests in philosophy of psychiatry and phenomenology. Her role in the project includes writing a PhD thesis on the phenomenology of bipolar disorder. She is based at Durham University and can be reached via e-mail at hannahmbowden@gmail.com
Louis C. Charland is a philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotion and the affective sciences, and the history and philosophy of psychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at charland@uwo.ca
Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has a secondary appointment at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and at Durham University (UK). His publications include Phenomenology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); The Phenomenological Mind (with Dan Zahavi, Rout-ledge, 2008; second edition 2012), Brainstorming (Imprint Academic, 2008); How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford, 2005); and as editor, the Oxford Handbook of the Self (Oxford, 2011). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He can be contacted via e-mail at gallaghr33@gmail.com
George Graham is the author, co-author, or co-editor of more than half a dozen books on the subject of mental disorder or illness. On the topic of addiction, he has co-edited with Jeffrey Poland Addiction and Responsibility (MIT Press, 2011). The second edition of his The Disordered Mind (Routledge) published in 2013. He can be contacted via e-mail at ggraham@gsu.edu
Nick Heather is Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences at Northumbria University. A clinical psychologist by training, he is mainly interested in research on brief interventions and treatment for alcohol problems and in theories of addiction. Recent publications include: Heather, N. (2011). Development, evaluation and implementation of alcohol brief intervention in Europe. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30, 138–147; Heather, N. (2012). Can screening and brief intervention lead to population-level reductions in alcohol-related harm? Addiction Science [End Page 381] and Clinical Practice, 7, 15. He can be contacted via e-mail at nick.heather@northumbria.ac.uk
Tony Hope is the Uehiro Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Emeritus Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford. He recently retired as Professor of Medical Ethics at the Ethox Centre in the University of Oxford, and as Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist. In addition to research papers he has co-authored a number of books including a general textbook of medicine, a self-help psychology book, and several books in medical ethics and law. He can be contacted via e-mail at tonyhope@doctors.org.uk
Gabriel Segal is a philosopher by training, but has always had a keen interest in the sciences, particularly psychology and linguistics. He has written two books: Knowledge of Meaning, with Richard Larson, MIT Press (1995) and A Slim Book About Narrow Content, MIT Press 2000. He can be contact via e-mail at gabrielsegal@gabrielsegal.free-online.co.uk
Anne Stewart is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford. She has extensive experience of management of eating disorders in young people within inpatient and outpatient settings. Her clinical and research interests include ethical and legal issues in the treatment of eating disorders, cognitive behavioral approaches with young people with eating disorders and prevention of eating disorders. She can be contacted...
