About the Authors
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Yochai Ataria is a Senior Lecturer at Tel Hai Colleg. Yochai has written a number of articles on various topics relating to altered states of consciousness, mainly concerning the relationship between the sense of self, the sense of time, and the sense body during traumatic experiences. He has also published a number of articles regarding the meditative experience. He can be contacted at yochai.ataria@gmail.com.
Gloria Ayob is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Mental Health at the School of Health, University of Central Lancashire. She can be contacted at GLAyob@uclan.ac.uk.
Philip Boyce is Professor of Psychiatry at West-mead Hospital, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney; Head of the Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Research Unit at Westmead Hospital; and Head of the NSW Statewide Outreach Perinatal Mental Health Service. He has had a long-standing clinical and research interest in perinatal mental health and mood disorders. He is co-author of a new book on perinatal depression for the use of women and their partners to help then in this life transition: Parker, G., K. Eyers, and P. Boyce. 2014. Overcoming baby blues: A comprehensive guide to perinatal depression (Sydney: Allen & Unwin). He can be contacted at philip.boyce@sydney.edu.au.
Terry Carney is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney and Visiting Research Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, he is a past President (2005-2007) of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. His publications include: Carney, T., D. Tait, J. Perry, A. Vernon and F. Beaupert. 2011. Australian mental health tribunals: Space for fairness, freedom, protection & treatment? (Sydney: Themis); and Managing anorexia nervosa: Clinical, legal & social perspectives on involuntary treatment (New York: Nova Science; 2006). He can be contacted at terry.carney@sydney.edu.au.
Michelle Cleary is Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney. Formerly, she was Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. She has strong research partnerships, and is currently actively involved in a number of projects with colleagues. She is highly published and has received numerous grants and scholarships and has been an invited speaker and presented papers at conferences, and universities both locally and abroad. She can be contacted at m.cleary@uws.edu.au.
Glenn Hunt is presently employed as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and shares his time coordinating area mental health research based at the Concord Centre for Mental Health. He has authored more than 200 articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals [End Page 75] that have received more than 3,364 citations. His current interests include discovering novel treatment options for substance misuse and assessing the effect of illicit drug use has on mental health patient outcomes and carer distress. He recently published a Cochrane review of examining psychosocial interventions for people with both severe mental illness and substance misuse (DOI:10.1002/14651858. CD001088.pub3). He can be contacted at glenn.hunt@sydney.edu.au.
Ian Kerridge is Director and Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney and a hematologist/BMT Physician at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He is the author of more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and five textbooks of ethics, most recently Ethics and Law for the Health Professions (Federation Press, 2013). His current research interests in ethics include the experience of illness, philosophy of medicine, public health, emerging and (re)emergent infections (including tuberculosis), conflict of interest, stem cells, end-of-life care, genomics, drug policy and organ donation. He can be contacted at ian.kerridge@sydney.edu.au.
Edwina Light is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include involuntary psychiatric treatment, mental health policy and ethics. Based on research into community treatment orders (CTOs), her...
