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Roger K. Blashfield has devoted his career to studying the issues of classification. With this broad goal in mind, he has engaged in studies of multivariate statistical procedures to create classification systems; he has applied the prototype model to study the classification of personality disorders; he has written about theories of classification from biology, anthropology and cognitive psychology; and he has used quantitative techniques to the scientific literature of classification to comment on the political forces that shaped decisions about classificatory systems. He can be contacted via e-mail at:blashrk@auburn.edu.
David Brendel, Md, Phd, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Associate Medical Director of the Pavilion unit at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is the author of Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide (MIT Press, 2006). He can be contacted via e-mail at:dbrendel@partners.org.
Marcus Cheetham, has a Diploma in Psychology from the University of Freiburg, and is currently a PhD student. His fields of interest include Clinical Neuropsychology and research in emotion and motivation. He can be reached via e-mail at:jmcheetham@yahoo.de.
Jennifer Clegg is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Nottinghamshire Health-care NHS Trust. Her work questions enthusiasm for independence by theorizing and researching relationships, attachment, and transition. Recent publications include “Understanding intellectually disabled clients in clinical psychology” in D. Goodley and R. Lawthom, editors, Disability and Psychology: Critical introductions and reflections (2006; Basingstoke: Palgrave); and “Tensions around inclusion: reframing the moral horizon” to appear in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability. She can be contacted via e-mail at:Jennifer.Clegg@Nottingham.ac.uk
Larry Davidson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of the Program for Recovery and Community Health of the School of Medicine and Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. His training, research, and policy interests focus on the interface of recovery in psychiatric and substance use disorders with membership in society. Grounded primarily in the transcendental phenomenology of Husserl, Davidson has developed qualitative and participatory action research methods and used them to explore processes of recovery and to develop and evaluate innovative community-based psychosocial interventions with people with serious mental illnesses. He can be contacted via e-mail at: Larry.Davidson@Yale.edu.
Roberto R. Evangelista da silva is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Federal University of Bahia [End Page 289] in Brazil. His published work includes original research on Gilles Deleuze. His recent research has focused on Deleuzés interpretation of the practical philosophies of Leibniz and Kant. He can be contacted via e-mail at:betomelville@yahoo.com.br.
Jochen Fahrenberg, Dr.Phil., is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany. His fields of interest include Psychological Anthropology and Differential Psychology, Methodology and History of Psychology, Research in Psychophysiology and Neuropsychology. His recent books include Psychologische Interpretation. Biographien, Texte, Tests [Psychological Interpretation. Biographies, Texts, Tests], and Alltagsnahe Psychologie mit hand-held PC und physiologischem Mess-System [Psychology of Daily Life with hand-held PC and Physiological Recorder]. He can be contacted via e-mail at:fahrenbe@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de.
Elizabeth H. Flanagan is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale University School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on classification, the DSM, and sociology of science, including clinicians’ perceptions of mental disorders, bias in diagnosis, stigma towards people with mental illness, and people’s subjective experience of mental illness. She can be contacted via e-mail at:Elizabeth.Flanagan@yale.edu.
Nick Haslam is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His academic interests include psychiatric classification, lay conceptions of abnormality, and the psychology of prejudice, stereotyping, and dehumanization. He is the author most recently of Introduction to the taxometric method: A practical guide (with J. and A. M. Ruscio; Erlbaum, 2006) and Introduction to personality and intelligence (Sage, 2007), and co-editor of Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia (Federation Press, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at:nhaslam@unimelb.edu...
