Mary Boyle Author & Editor

Mary Boyle has worked mainly in clinical psychology education and training and in clinical posts in adult mental health and women's health. She is a long-time critic of the medical/diagnostic approach and of individualistic approaches more generally in the health field. She is the author of Schizophrenia: A scientific delusion (2002) and Rethinking Abortion: Psychology, gender, power and the law (1997), as well as many articles and chapters on feminist approaches to women's health and on problems of and alternatives to diagnostic models. She is Emerita Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. / Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist. Her interest in critiques of and alternatives to current models of distress stems from her many years of working in adult mental health services, alternating with academic posts. She is the author of several books - Users and Abusers of Psychiatry (2000); Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy (2013), and A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis (2014), and a number of chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on psychiatric theory and practice. She now works as an independent trainer.