Stakeholder Register

Andrew Turtle

Associated Organisation:
The Global Now Project, Global Mental Health Peer Network

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Advocate, Consumer

Summary:

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Daniel Freeman

Associated Organisation:
Paranoid Thoughts

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Professor

Summary:
Daniel Freeman is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, and a Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Clinical Fellow, in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University, and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He is also an honorary consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Kate Crawford

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:

Summary:
ate started hearing voices aged four. She would see visions of a man and woman in period clothing and also a little girl but they never spoke. After her mum died she was placed in children’s homes. In later years she became homeless, she then met a man who she fell pregnant to. Kate now has four children. Through abusive relationships and constant pressure from social services, she felt she couldn’t take anymore and made a suicide attempt. She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and given a diagnosis of post traumatic paranoid schizophrenia. Things that help her now are working for the paranoia network, sharing her experiences with other voice hearers and people who experience paranoia. Getting involved in a hearing voices and paranoia support group changed her life.

Peter Bullimore

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:

Summary:
Peter is a voice hearer who spent ten years as a psychiatric patient enduring many bouts of severe paranoia. Through learning holistic approaches and with support of the Hearing Voices Network he was able to reclaim his life from the system. He facilitates a hearing voices and paranoia support group in Sheffield. He also runs his own training and consultancy agency, Asylum Associates, and is the founder member of the Paranoia Network. Peter delivers teaching on hearing voices and paranoia internationally. He also teaches on the COPE initiative at Manchester University and currently undertakes a research post at the university looking at a collaborative working between voluntary sector organisations and the university. He is also undertaking research into what recovery means from a service user’s perspective. He co-authored the workbook Asking the Questions with Paul Hammersley and John Read, a guidebook around childhood trauma.

Philippa Garety

Associated Organisation:
Paranoid Thoughts

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Professor

Summary:
Philippa Garety is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She is the Clinical Director and Joint Leader of the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Shaun Hunt

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Consumer

Summary:
Shaun has many years experience of using psychiatric services and has had his own personal battles with experiences such as hearing voices and what some would call paranoia. He has now recovered his life and learnt how to manage his experiences, even during the dark times. Shaun works as a Lecturer delivering training around recovery principles and values to mental health professionals. He is able to draw upon some of his own lived experiences, bringing the theory to life in the learning environment. Shaun has spoken at conferences and delivered training on various mental health topics in a variety of settings both nationally and internationally.

Simon Griffin

Associated Organisation:

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Advocate, Consumer, Peer Worker

Summary:

Terry Mclaughlin

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

Area of Work:
Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Role:
Consumer

Summary:
Terence McLaughlin died on 3 September 2007. He was very recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and caught a secondary infection over the weekend before. Terence was born in 1947, and was a militant revolutionary socialist for many years in industry before undertaking a psychology degree, which he completed at Manchester Polytechnic. His PhD ‘Psychology and mental health politics: A critical history of the Hearing Voices Movement’ at Manchester Metropolitan University was examined by Marius Romme in 2000. During the period of his studies and then afterwards he brought radical perspectives to campaigns, conferences and publications against the power of experts to define what is normal and abnormal for others. He was a Co-founder of the National Paranoia Network & until his death, executive editor of Asylum magazine.