| Brief biography | Teaching | Research/Publications | Links |
Position: Emeritus Professor
Location: N/A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8223 4174 (via Claire Wickham)
Email: c/o c.wickham@uel.ac.uk
Contact address:
School of PsychologyMary Boyle is now retired. She is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and was an academic tutor on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. She is also an Honorary Clinical Psychologist in Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, specialising in psychological aspects of women’s health. Her main areas of interest are in critical clinical psychology and in feminist approaches to women’s health. She is also interested in raising public awareness of the problems of traditional psychiatric approaches to emotional and behavioural difficulties.
The prevention of “schizophrenia” has received little attention, not least because it is claimed that its causes are largely unknown. I argue that this pessimistic view is based on acceptance of both the highly problematic concept of schizophrenia and of the assumption that “it” is a genetic/biological illness. The problems of both the concept and its surrounding assumptions are examined and an alternative model of psychotic behaviour and experience, with very different implications for prevention, is discussed. (from ‘Preventing a Non-Existent Illness?: Some Issues in the Prevention of “Schizophrenia”’. Journal of Primary Prevention. 24 (2004) 445–469.
Last updated: 31 October 2007.
© 2010
From children’s understanding of social rules to the developmental effects of prenatal exposure to ecstasy, UEL’s Institute for Research in Child Development is at the forefront of psychological investigation into issues affecting infants, children and adolescents.
For a general description of these pages and an explanation of how they should work with screenreading equipment please follow this link:Link to general description
For further information on this web site’s accessibility features please follow this link:Link to accessibility information
The following message does not apply to screenreader users:
You will still be able to access all the essential content of this web site, but it will not look, or function, exactly as intended.
