Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry;  practising psychiatrist; and one of the founding members and co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry network. Author of several books, including The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2008), A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (2009), and The Bitterest Pills (2013). Recently lead author of a systematic umbrella review of the serotonin theory of depression.

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Professor of Philosophy and member of the Essex Human Rights Centre. Working in areas of Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Psychiatry, with a focus on mental distress and its social conditions, and on autonomy in the contexts of care. Author of Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly, and papers on Critical Theory and Social Pathology. CICSI's founding director. 

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Expert-by-experience; author; activist; speaker and trainer; and former National chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England. Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the UEL. Editor of several books, including Demedicalising Misery and Models of Madness.

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Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health; and neuropsychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square UCLH, sine 2018; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences; President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (2022-24). Co-edited several books including, The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry(2003), and Insight and Psychosis (2nd Ed) (2004); and Organic Psychiatry (2009).

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Practicing psychiatrist and academic researcher from Germany. Works with the Open Dialogue approach, seeking to find non-diagnostic ways forward within the existing psychiatric institutions. Interested in processes of medicalization (and specifically psychiatrisation), how they are promoted and how they are experienced or resisted. His research includes work on psychiatrisation in emergency departments and in relation to children as well as on participatory-collaborative research.

Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School; played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality; wrote The Spirit Level and The Inner Level with Kate Pickett; co-founded The Equality Trust; received various international honours (Solidar’s Silver Rose Award; Community Access Unlimited’s ‘Humanitarian of the Year’ Award; Charles Cully Memorial medal from the Irish Cancer Society).

Professor in Social Science and Health, co-lead on the 'Work, welfare reform and mental health' programme within the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health; co-lead of the 'Welfare at a (Social) Distance' project, an ESRC rapid-response project looking at the benefits system during Covid-19.  Helped co-found the University of Kent's Q-Step centre. For a time in 2015-16 he was also on secondment as a Policy Advisor at the Department of Work and Pensions.

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Lecturer in Social Policy and Public Management, School for Business and Society. Affiliate of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Research focuses on the complex interplay of mental health, welfare systems and employment, in particular illuminating the personal, social and structural influences on transitions between employment and welfare in the context of mental distress. Research seeks to bring critical and conceptual lenses into productive dialogue with real-world policy and practice.

Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she and Jean-Max Gaudillière conducted a weekly seminar on Madness and the Social Link for 40 years. Author of many articles and books, including Wittgenstein’s Folly, Mother Folly, and – with Jean-Max Gaudillière – History Beyond Trauma, Madness and the Social Link, and The Birth of a Political Self.

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with many years of experience, including as supervisor, Researcher and Academic (including at Regent's University); Theory Editor at the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Author and editor of several books, including The Sublime in Everyday Life and The Male in Analysis.

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Clinical Team Lead at CAMHS, previously set up community psychology services for women escaping domestic  violence, homeless people, people misusing substances,  travelling communities of Roma and Irish heritage and refugee people; has worked in a Human Rights charity for survivors of torture. Author of books including Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma: To Have Our Hearts Broken and co-editor of Liberation Practices: Towards Emotional Wellbeing Through Dialogue.

Former Director of the Mental Health Department in Trieste, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training during his tenure. Publications including on Basaglia’s impact, deinstitutionalization, and empowerment; supporting the development of community-based services and programs, which are person-centred and value-based (human rights), including in a London Borough.

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Urbanist and sociologist, specialising in social policy and housing. She has worked at GIE La Ville Autrement on the deployment of partnership projects for the homeless in the metropolitan of Lyon within the framework of Housing First. She is the author of a sociology thesis on Housing First and institutional innovation (2023, Université Côte d'Azur, France). 

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GP in Tower Hamlets since 1989 at the Bromley by Bow Centre, with over 100 projects under its roof supporting the wider determinants of health. Chair of Tower Hamlets CCG and the Chair of the 32 London CCG Chairs. Council Member of the BMA and Royal College of GPs. OBE for services to inner city primary care, International Award of Excellence in Health Care and a knighthood for services to primary care. Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London and Vice President of the Queen’s Nursing. Institute.

Lead author of A Mentally Healthier Nation: Towards a ten-year, cross-government plan for better prevention, equality and support; designer and deliverer of the Thrive LDN Mentally Healthier Councils training programme delivered to 532 elected members in 32 boroughs; over a decade as a Local Government Association Expert Peer advising councils all over England, and serving as a senior Lambeth Councillor including as Cabinet Member and LGIU-award-winning scrutiny chair.