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Dr Gary Winship (PhD, MA, RMN, Dip Gp Psych, Cert Add): [LAST UPDATED JUNE 2016] Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. Course Leader MA Trauma Studies. Editor: International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Senior Fellow and arts co-ordinator of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University. UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, NMC registered Mental Health Nurse, Chair of training standards for the University Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA). NMC registered Mental Health Nurse. Chair: appointments panel for the Annual Skellern Lecture & Wiley-Blackwell Lifetime Achievement Award in Mental Health (see www.skellern.info)
Clinical roles in the NHS have spanned more than 30 years. Consultant psychotherapist: HMP Dovegate, Broadmoor, Senior Adult Psychotherapist: Berkshire NHS, Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals. Out-patient and community services in London, Berkshire, Brighton, South Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Organisational consultant, consultant psychotherapist, MHN, HIV counsellor. Appointed as a clinical governance reviewer for the Commission for Health Audit & Improvement (CHAI) in 2000. He has held teaching positions in 7 different universities: Goldsmiths, University of East London, University of Greenwich, University College London, University of Reading, Sheffield University & University of Nottingham. He has been an external examiner to mental health courses; Cassel Hospital (UEL), Southern Counties Psychotherapy (Newman, Birmingham), MA working with Personality Disorders (Newman), BA in Counselling (University of Worcester). He has published 100+ papers and book chapters, books, and has delivered more than a twenty key note addresses at conferences here in the UK and abroad. He sits on several journal editorial boards.
Co-convened(with Marie Armstrong) a Managed Innovation Network which building research and resource capacity in the area of School age suicide and self-harm.
Honorary president of Real United FC which has a key mission develop programmes of mentorship for young people in Nottingham where football offers a life changing chance to engage in team membership and character building.
Part of a £1.5 million AHRC research project looking at new creative pathways to mutual recovery, developing innovative programmes (from clay therapy to performance arts) supporting people in recovery (see www.claytransformations.info),
China (2010, 2011, 2013) where he has been part of a process of building research partnerships with colleagues in Ningbo and Shanghai. In 2012 he delivered a keynote at the 22nd China National Congress of Child & Adolescent Mental Health looking at the psychology of only children, and in 2013 he was part of delegation which reviewed the landmark first Mental Health Act in China.
GW has extensive clinical and research experience in therapeutic environments, especially working with psychotic states, understanding the optimal conditions for an effective therapeutic milieu, including the resources of staff and team work. He has worked on numerous acute in-patient services at the Bethlem & Maudsley (1980-1994), including Ward Six with Murray Jackson and colleagues, and he has worked in 5 prisons and in collaboration with Eric Cullen established a Therapeutic Community in Aylesbury Young Offenders Institute in 1997. 2000-2001 was locum consultant psychotherapist at Broadmoor High Secure Hospital. From 1994-2004 he was senior psychotherapist, Berkshire NHS, working in a day hospital therapeutic community, carrying an out-patient case load of individual and group clients. He has published numerous papers about the skills and application of talking therapy. In 2010 he edited the collected papers of his supervisor; the late Jonathan Pedder: Attachment & New Beginnings in Psychoanalytic Therapy (Karnacs,2010). His experiences working in the field of addictions since 1980 are gathered in his book; The Spike & the Moon - Why People Take Drugs (Karnacs, 2011). Also recent published is a translation project: The Erotic by Lou Andreas-Salome [editor and introductory essay] (Rutgers, Transactions Press, 2012).
His website: www.winship.info has received over 5 million visits since 2005.
He has led an ESRC project looking at arson and young fire starters and was described by The Times in 2010 as one of the two leading experts in arson in the UK. Treasurer for the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC) 2001-2007, full member of Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS (APP), member ISPS UK, clinical member of Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA).