Sports Psychiatry
Edited by Alan Currie and Bruce Owen
Author Information
Alan Currie, Consultant Psychiatrist, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,Bruce Owen, Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Alan Currie has been a consultant psychiatrist in full-time NHS practice in the north-east of England since 1997. Additionally he has experience of medical management and served for 4 years on the executive of the General and Community Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He has published on topics such as social inclusion, remission and recovery in severe mental illness, antidepressant discontinuation syndromes, movement disorders and socio-cultural factors in eating disorders.
He has presented his work on illness behaviours in athletes, eating disorders in sport and the rehabilitation of doping offenders at several national and international conferences. He has advised a number of national sports organisations on mental health matters and in 2007 he edited and co-authored the UK Sport guidelines on eating disorders.
Dr Bruce Owen works as a full time NHS consultant psychiatrist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. He spent eight years working in an inner city community mental health team before moving to work in a recovery and rehabilitation focussed psychosis service working in both inpatient and community settings. He has a strong interest in medical education being involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Training Programme Director with Health Education North East. As well as being Director of Medical Education with Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS FT he has had educational roles with both the General Adult and Community Faculty and the NE Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He has published and presented on a range of topics including studies looking at the aetiology of unipolar and bipolar depression and treatment focused studies in bipolar disorder.
Contributors:
David R. McDuff, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Kate Goodger, Director of Education, Chimp Management Ltd, Chapel en le Frith, UK
Sarah Broadhead, Director of Sport, Chimp Management Ltd, Chapel en le Frith, UK
Valentin Z. Markser, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst, Institute for Sport Psychiatry, Cologne, Germany
Alan Currie, Consultant Psychiatrist, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Jon Arcelus, Consultant Psychiatrist, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughbrough University, UK
R. Hamish Mcallister-Williams, Reader in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Newcastle University, UK
Carolyn Plateau, Assistant Lecturer in Psychology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
Pamela Walters, Consultant Forensic and Addictions Psychiatrist, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Andrea Hearn, Consultant Psychiatrist, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Paul McArdle, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bruce Owen, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Postgraduate Education, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Newcastle, UK
Reshad Malik, Core Psychiatry Trainee, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Allan Johnson, Consultant Psychiatrist, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK
