- About the Authors
Nerina Caltabiano is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at James Cook University, Australia. She is a social psychologist with research interests incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives from pathology, health, development and educational psychology.
Owen Chevalier is a PhD student in the philosophy department at Western University. He is also a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy where he engages in research in the areas of philosophy of science, psychiatry, and psychology under the supervision of Dr. Jacqueline Sullivan.
David Crepaz-Keay is Head of Research and Applied Learning at the Foundation, where he has worked for 18 years. He has led the organisation's involvement in research projects that enable people to support their own, and each others' mental health. He is currently co-chair of the ethics, policy and position committee of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics, a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, and has written and edited several academic publications. He has previously been a technical advisor to the World Health Organization and senior mental health advisor to Public Health England.
James Dimmock is Professor of Health Psychology at James Cook University, Australia. His research interests include sports psychology, translational health psychology, and also undertakes research at all ends of the bench-to-bedside spectrum with an eye to community impact.
Anastasios Dimopoulos is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and is Chair of the Philosophy SIG of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Sam Fellowes is an autistic philosopher of psychiatry based at Lancaster University. He is interested in the philosophical status of psychiatric diagnoses, experts-by-experience in psychiatric research and self-diagnosis. He has recently published 'The importance of involving experts-by-experience with different psychiatric diagnoses when revising diagnostic criteria' and 'Self-diagnosis in psychiatry and the distribution of social resources.'
Phoebe Friesen is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Trained as a philosopher, she has broad interests in research ethics, feminist philosophy of science, and medical ethics, and often utilizes qualitative research in her work. Currently, she is working on a variety of projects, including ones that examine moral dimensions of the placebo effect, community-led research governance, inequality in pain research, and participatory research in psychiatry.
Jane Mills is Pro Vice Chancellor of Health Innovation (Regional) and Dean of Rural Health School at La Trobe University, Australia. She is an internationally recognised grounded theorist and primary health care academic who has interests in rural health, health workforce, health system strengthening and nursing education.
Anya Plutynski is Professor of Philosophy and the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Her scholarly interests include history and philosophy of biology and medicine. Her most recent book is Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder (Oxford, 2018).
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed is a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Madness and the Demand for Recognition: A Philosophical Inquiry into Identity and Mental Health Activism (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Sandy Rea is an Australian registered psychologist and a Fellow of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists. Sandy has multiple qualifications including a Master of Forensic Psychology and a Master of Educational Studies. The interface of employment in a maximum security men's prison, private clinical practice and contribution to the media coalesced into her interest in humiliation.
Abdi Sanati is a consultant psychiatrist with 22 years clinical experience in psychiatry. From 2017 to 2021 he was the chair of Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. Currently he is the chair of Professional Practice and Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.