Dave Harper is Reader in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London (UEL) where he is an Academic Tutor on the Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology programme. He gained both his undergraduate degree in psychology and his Masters degree in clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool. Before he moved to UEL, Dave worked as a clinical psychologist in National Health Service mental health services in the North West of the UK for nine years, completing a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University at the same time. His research interests are in critical psychology and social constructionist approaches in mental health, particularly in relation to psychosis, and also in discourses of surveillance in contemporary culture. He is involved in a number of campaigning activities aimed at developing more progressive responses to mental distress. He works one session a week as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for East London NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Systemic Consultation Service based in Newham.

He is an associate editor of Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice and a member of the editorial collective of Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry. He is also on the editorial boards of Subjectivity, the Annual Review of Critical Psychology and the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

He is a member of UEL’s Psychology and Social Change Research Group, Centre for Narrative Research and the Centre for Systemic Therapy Research. He is also a member of Psychology, Politics, Resistance, the Manchester Discourse Unit, the Soteria Network and Scientists for Global Responsibility and is part of the Advisory Group of the London Hearing Voices Project.

• Academic tutor for second year of the Clinical Psychology programme (e.g., co-ordinating academic teaching)
• Teaching, assessment and supervising the research of clinical psychology trainees

• Critical qualitative research (e.g. Discourse Analysis) in mental health, particularly concerning professional discourse about concepts (e.g. psychosis and paranoid delusions) and interventions (e.g., medication, ECT and mental health legislation).
• Social inequality – both how it is explained and its influence on mental health.
• Discrimination against those experiencing mental distress – both exploring its effects and examining interventions which aim to challenge it.
• Psychological therapies which try to avoid pathologising users of mental health services.
• Critiquing the use of psychological knowledge in national security-related interrogation.
• Examining public perceptions of surveillance and dataveillance technologies.

• BSc (Hons) Psychology
• Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

• Social inequalities
• Research methods
• Theoretical aspects of intervention
• Personal and professional development
• Adult mental health problems
• Psychology of mental health
• Psychology and ‘difference’

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Harper, D.J. (2013). On the persistence of psychiatric diagnosis: moving beyond a zombie classification system. Feminism & Psychology, 23, 78–85. doi:10.1177/0959353512467970
2. Harper, D. (2012). Surveying qualitative research teaching on British clinical psychology training programmes 1992–2006: a changing relationship? Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8, 1–8.
3. Harper, D.J., & Speed, E. (2012). Uncovering recovery: the resistible rise of recovery and resilience. Studies in Social Justice, 6(1), 9–25.
4. Tucker, I., Ellis, D., & Harper, D. (2012). Transformative processes of agency: information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves. Culture and Society: Journal of Social Research, 3(1), 9–24.
5. Brown, S.D., Cromby, J., Harper, D., Johnson, K., & Reavey, P. (2011). Researching “experience”: embodiment, methodology, process. Theory & Psychology, 21(4), 493–515. doi:10.1177/0959354310377543
6. Harper, D. (2011). Social inequality and the diagnosis of paranoia. Health Sociology Review, 20(4), 420–433. doi:10.5172/hesr.2011.20.4.423
7. McKechnie, V., & Harper, D.J. (2011). Belief in a just world and attitudes towards mental illness. Psychosis, 3(2), 145–147. doi:10.1080/17522439.2010.484504
8. Harper, D. (2010). Clinical psychology in context: a commentary on David Pilgrim’s ‘British clinical psychology and society’. Psychology, Learning & Teaching, 9(2), 13–14. doi:10.2304/plat.2010.9.2.13
9. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2009). Paranoia: A social account. Theory & Psychology, 19(3), 335–361. doi:10.1177/0959354309104158
10. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Reavey, P. (2008). Mental health teaching to UK psychology undergraduates: report of a survey. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 18, 83–90. doi:10.1002/casp.913
11. Harper, D. (2008). The politics of paranoia: Paranoid positioning and conspiratorial narratives in the surveillance society. Surveillance & Society, 5(1), 1–32.
12. Harper, D., O’Connor, J., Self, P., & Stevens, P. (2008). Learning to do discourse analysis: Accounts of supervisees and a supervisor. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5(3), 192–213. doi:10.1080/14780880802314320

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Harper, D. (2013). Reflections on qualitative research in clinical psychology training. Clinical Psychology Forum, 243, 20–23.
2. Harper, D. (2010). Tensions and dilemmas in clinical psychology’s relationship with the service user movement. Clinical Psychology Forum, 209, 35–38.
3. Sholl, C., Korkie, J., & Harper, D. (2010). Challenging teenagers’ ideas about people with mental health problems. The Psychologist, 23(1), 2–3.
4. Harper, D. (2009). Narrative therapy, family therapy and history. Context: A Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 102(April), 17–18.
5. Sholl, C., Korkie, J., & Harper, D. (2009). Working with young people to challenge discrimination against mental health service users: A psychosocial pilot study. Clinical Psychology Forum, 196, 45–49.
6. Harper, D. (2008). Psychology and the ‘war on terror’. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling & Psychotherapy, 8, 156–165. (Reprint of Harper [2004] in Special Issue ‘The Great and the Good, Volume 1, Celebrating Changes’ and JCPCP.)
7. Harper, D. (2008). An unsung hero of mental health campaigning. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 8, 84–85.

Books

1. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Reavey, P. (2013). Psychology, mental health and distress. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 Edited Books

1. Harper, D., & Thompson, A. (Eds.). (2012). Qualitative research methods in mental health and psychotherapy: an introduction for students and practitioners (Available from July 2011). Chichester: Wiley.

Book Chapters

1. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (in press). Psychosis. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology. New York: Springer.
2. Harper, D. (in press). Psychiatric diagnosis and its dilemmas. In K. Partridge & S. McNab (Eds.), Inside out/outside in: creative positions in adult mental health. London: Karnac.
3. Harper, D., & Spellman, D. (in press). Telling a different story: formulation and narrative therapy. In L. Johnstone & R. Dallos (Eds.), Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems (2nd ed.). London: Brunner-Routledge.
4. Harper, D., Tucker, I., & Ellis, D. (in press). Surveillance and subjectivity: everyday experiences of surveillance practices. In K.S. Ball & L. Snider (Eds.), Surveillance industrial complex. London: Routledge.
5. Harper, D.J., & Cromby, J. (in press). Paranoia. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology. New York: Springer.
6. Harper, D.J., Ellis, D., & Tucker, I. (in press). Surveillance. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology. New York: Springer.
7. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2013). Paranoia: contested and contextualised. In B. Diamond, S. Coles & S. Keenan (Eds.), Madness contested: power and practice. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS.
8. Harper, D., Gannon, K.N., & Robinson, M. (2013). Beyond evidence-based practice: rethinking the relationship between research, theory and practice. In R. Bayne & G. Jinks (Eds.), Applied psychology: practice, training and new directions (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
9. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2011). Paranoia: a social account (reproduction of Theory & Psychology paper). In I. Parker (Ed.), Critical Psychology, Volume III: Psychologization and psychological culture, Part 9: Psychologization, pp. 265–292. Hove: Psychology Press.
10. Harper, D. (2011). The complicity of psychology in the security state (reproduction of chapter from Just War). In I. Parker (Ed.), Critical Psychology, Volume III: Psychologization and psychological culture, Part 7: Surveillance, pp. 26–64. Hove: Psychology Press.
11. Harper, D. (2011). The social context of ‘paranoia’. In M. Rapley, J. Dillon & J. Moncrieff (Eds.), De-medicalising misery. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
12. Brown, S.D., Reavey, P., Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Johnson, K. (2009). On psychology and embodiment: Some methodological experiments. In J. Latimer & M. Schillmeier (Eds.), Un/knowing bodies. Sociological Review Monographs (pp. 199–215). Oxford: Blackwell.
13. Harper, D. (2009). Preface: Learning from our work. In J. Stedmon & R. Dallos (Eds.), Reflective practice in psychotherapy and counselling. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
14. Harper, D. (2008). Clinical psychology. In C. Willig & W. Stainton Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research methods in psychology (pp. 430–454). London: Sage. doi:10.4135/9781848607927.n24

Conference Papers

1. Harper, D. (2012, 6 December). From the individual to the social: the need for a new heading in clinical psychology. Paper presented at the DCP annual conference, University of Oxford.
2. Harper, D. (2012, 4 July). Discussant at ‘Postmodern approaches to researching psychotherapy: reflections and innovations’., symposium at Qualitative Research & Mental Health. University of Nottingham.
3. Harper, D. (2012, 3 July). Distress, diagnosis and qualitative research. Invited keynote at Qualitative Research & Mental Health. University of Nottingham.
4. Harper, D. (2012, 29 May). Conspiracy or confusion: public understandings of the use of personal information. Paper presented at the State of Surveillance, Living in Surveillance Societies conference, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona.
5. Harper, D. (2012, 20 April). Rethinking recovery. Paper presented at the Recovery in Psychological Practice conference, Psychology & Psychotherapy Professional Network, Indigo Trust Headquarters, Maghull, Liverpool.
6. Harper, D. (2012, 23 February). Doing clinical research. Paper presented at the Qualitative Research Methods in Clinical Settings conference, The Hub, Keele University.
7. Harper, D. (2012, 10 February). Happy now? The happiness agenda and the limitations of individualistic approaches. Paper presented at the BPS South East Coast Branch of the Division of Clinical Psychology conference on Well-Being: Professional, Political and Clinical Implications, London.
8. Harper, D. (2011, 12–15 May). Paranoia and public responses to cyber-surveillance. Paper presented at Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: an International Workshop, University of Toronto.
9. Harper, D. (2011, 6 June). Psychology and adult mental health: the good, the bad and the ugly. Paper presented at the DCP event ‘The Health & Social Care Bill in a Time of Necessity’, London BPS Offices.
10. Ellis, D., Harper, D., & Tucker, I. (2010). The organisation of life: everyday experiences of surveillance and dataveillance technologies. Paper presented at the Political Economy of Surveillance workshop, Hilton hotel, Milton Keynes.
11. Harper, D. (2009). Social inequalities and psychiatric diagnosis. Paper presented at the European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (EPFSA) European Summer School, Arcalia, Romania.
12. Harper, D. (2009). Whither or wither clinical psychology? Paper presented at What next for the profession after IAPT? DCP Annual conference, Congress House, London.
13. Harper, D. (2009). The implications of different approaches to paranoia. Paper presented at ‘A route to recovery’, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.
14. Temple, J., & Harper, D. (2009). Clairaudience in the Spiritualist Church: When hearing spirits is a culturally sanctioned experience. Paper presented at the First International Congress on Hearing Voices, MECC, Maastricht.
15. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2008). Social causation of paranoia. Paper presented at the Psychosis in Context conference, Notingham.
16. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2008). The importance of feeling. Paper presented at the ‘Beyond Belief: Resisting Cognitivism in Psychological Work’ conference, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham.
17. Harper, D. (2008). Constructing (im)plausibility: Health professionals’ account of the diagnosis of delusion. Paper presented at the First annual conference of BPS Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section, University of Leeds.
18. Harper, D. (2008). Constructing the implausible in talk about ‘delusions’. Paper presented at the Second Qualitative Research in Mental Health conference, Tampere, Finland.
19. Harper, D. (2008). Mental health politics then and now. Paper presented at the Psychotherapy and Liberation: May ’68 Anniversary Conference, Institute of Group Analysis, London.

Magazine Articles

1. Harper, D. (2011). No, we’re not ‘all in this together’. Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 18(1), 4.
2. Harper, D. (2010). Psychology and the ‘war on terror’ II: Psychological warfare and paranoia. Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 17(1), 28–30.
3. Harper, D. (2010). Rethinking ‘paranoia’. Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 17(1), 18–21.

Newspaper Articles

1. Harper, D. (2012, 22 February). The sad truth about the Action for Happiness movement, The Guardian, p. 35. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/21/sad-truth-action-for-happiness-movement
2. Parker, I., & Harper, D. (2008, January 25). Other lives: Terence McLaughlin [Obituary]. The Guardian, p. 42.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Stevens, P., & Harper, D.J. (2007). Professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy: a discourse analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 64(7), 1475–1486. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.015
2. Harper, D. (2005). The critical professional and social policy: negotiating dilemmas in the UK Mental Health Act campaign. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13, 55–75.
3. Harper, D. (2004). Delusions and discourse: moving beyond the constraints of the modernist paradigm. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 11(1), 55–64. doi:10.1353/ppp.2004.0041
4. Harper, D.J. (2000). Some effects of conspiracy thinking and paranoid labelling. Clio’s Psyche [Special issue: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories], 7, 112–113.
5. Harper, D.J. (1996). Accounting for poverty: from attribution to discourse. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 6, 249–265. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1298(199610)6:4<249::AID-CASP369>3.0.CO;2-U
6. Harper, D.J. (1996). Deconstructing ‘paranoia’: towards a discursive understanding of apparently unwarranted suspicion. Theory & Psychology, 6(3), 423–448. doi:10.1177/0959354396063005
7. Spellman, D., & Harper, D.J. (1996). Failure, mistakes, regret and other subjugated stories in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 18(2), 204–214. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.1996.tb00044.x

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Reavey, P. (2007). Moving beyond diagnosis: practising what we preach [Editorial for special issue]. The Psychologist, 20(5), 289.
2. Davidson, S., Harper, D., Patel, N., & Byrne, A. (2007). Drawing back the curtain on clinical psychology training: maintaining a critical approach. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling & Psychotherapy, 7, 201–210.
3. Harper, D. (2007). Mental Health Bill update. The Psychologist, 20(1), 5.
4. Harper, D., Cromby, J., Reavey, P., Cooke, A., & Anderson, J. (2007). Don’t jump ship! New approaches in mental health teaching to undergraduates. The Psychologist, 20(5), 302–304.
5. Harper, D. (2006). Some problems with the case for psychologists becoming clinical supervisors: a response to Pilgrim and others. Clinical Psychology Forum, 168, 7–12.
6. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2005). Paranoia and social inequality. Clinical Psychology Forum, 153, 17–21.
7. Harper, D. (2004). Psychology and the ‘war on terror’ Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling & Psychotherapy, 4, 1–10.
8. Harper, D. (2003). Book review of ‘What’s Wrong with Addiction?’. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 7, 184–187.
9. Harper, D. (2003). Interview with Rufus May. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3, 32–44.
10. Harper, D., & Moss, D. (2003). A different kind of chemistry? Reformulating ‘formulation’. Clinical Psychology, 25, 6–10.
11. Harper, D., Goodbody, L., & Steen, L. (2003). Involving users of services in clinical psychology training. Clinical Psychology, 21, 14–19.
12. Cooke, A., Harper, D., & Kinderman, P. (2002). DCP update: an invitation to debate: do clinical psychologists care about the Mental Health Act reforms? Clinical Psychology, 15, 40–46.
13. Cooke, A., Kinderman, P., & Harper, D. (2002). DCP update: criticisms and concerns. [Results of a survey of DCP members’ opinions about proposed reforms to the 1983 Mental Health Act]. Clinical Psychology, 13, 43–47.
14. Cooke, A., Harper, D., & Kinderman, P. (2002). Reform of mental health legislation. Forensic Update, 68, 6–16.
15. Harper, D. (2002). Cutting through mystification: Dave Harper interviews Mary Boyle. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2, 75–85.
16. Harper, D., & Spellman, D. (2002). Under the influence: the story of two clinical psychologists’ interest in narrative approaches. Clinical Psychology, 17, 8–11.
17. Cooke, A., Harper, D., & Kinderman, P. (2001). DCP update: reform of the Mental Health Act: implications for clinical psychologists. Clinical Psychology, 1, 48–52.
18. Harper, D. (2001). Psychiatric and psychological concepts in understanding psychotic experience. Clinical Psychology, 7, 21–27.
19. Harper, D. (1999). Book review of Even paranoids have enemies: new perspectives on paranoia and persecution. Psychoanalytic Studies, 1(4), 458–460.
20. Harper, D. (1998). Discourse analysis and psychiatric medication. Clinical Psychology Forum, 114, 19–21.
21. Harper, D., & Spellman, D. (1996). Talking about failure. Clinical Psychology Forum, 98, 16–18.
22. Harper, D.J. (1996). Paranoia: tributes and tributaries of resistance. Changes: An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 14, 25–30.

Professional publications and reports

1. Harper, D., Rowlands, A., & Youngson, S. (2006). Clinical psychology training and disability: information, guidance and good practice guidelines. Leicester: British Psychological Society.

Books

1. Parker, I., Georgaca, E., Harper, D., McLaughlin, T., & Stowell-Smith, M. (2007). Αποδομώντας την Ψυχοπαθολογία [Greek translation of Deconstructing Psychopathology]. Athens: Gutenberg.

Book Chapters

1. Harper, D. (2007). The complicity of psychology in the security state. In R. Roberts (Ed.), Just war: psychology, terrorism and Iraq (pp. 15–45). Ross-on-Wye: PCCS books.
2. Sloboda, J., Roberts, R., & Harper, D. (2007). A psychology for peace? In R. Roberts (Ed.), Just war: psychology, terrorism and Iraq (pp. 213–234). Ross-on-Wye: PCCS books.
3. Harper, D., & Spellman, D. (2006). Telling a different story: social constructionism and formulation. In L. Johnstone & R. Dallos (Eds.), Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems (pp. 98–125): London: Brunner-Routledge.
4. Harper, D.J. (2006). Discourse analysis. In M. Slade & S. Priebe (Eds.), Choosing methods in mental health research (pp. 47–67). Hove: Routledge.
5. Harper, D.J. (2004). Introducing social constructionist and critical psychology into clinical psychology training. In D. Paré & G. Larner (Eds.), Collaborative practice in psychology and therapy. New York: Haworth Press.
6. Harper, D.J. (2004). Storying policy: constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation. In B. Hurwitz, T. Greenhalgh & V. Skultans (Eds.), Narrative research in health and illness (pp. 397–413): BMJ/Blackwell Books. doi:10.1002/9780470755167.ch23
7. Harper, D., Mulvey, R.M., & Robinson, M. (2003). Beyond evidence-based practice: rethinking the relationship between research, theory and practice. In R. Bayne & I. Horton (Eds.), Applied psychology: current issues and new directions. London: Sage.
8. Harper, D.J. (2003). Developing a critically reflexive position using discourse analysis. In L. Finlay & B. Gough (Eds.), Reflexivity: a practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences (pp. 78–92). Oxford: Blackwell Science.
9. Harper, D.J. (2003). Poverty and discourse. In S.C. Carr & T.S. Sloan (Eds.), Poverty and psychology: from global perspective to local practice (pp. 185–203). New York: Kluwer-Plenum.
10. Harper, D. (1999). Tablet talk and depot discourse: discourse analysis and psychiatric medication. In C. Willig (Ed.), Applied discourse analysis: social and psychological interventions.
11. Harper, D., & Mason, T. (1999). Use and misuse of prescribed medication. In M. McKeown, D. Mercer, T. Mason & G. McCann (Eds.), Forensic mental health care-planning: directions and dilemmas.
12. Harper, D.J., & Smith, G. (1997). Le client ‘non-présent’, l’équipe fléchissante, et plus de dialogues: vers les cybernétiques du troisième ordre. In Constructivisme et constructionisme social: aux limites de la systémique? (Vol. 19, pp. 251–259).

Conference Papers

1. Harper, D. (2007). Moving beyond individualistic approaches: the case of stigma and discrimination. Paper presented at the ‘Critical Approaches to Psychology and Psychotherapy’ conference, Department of Clinical Psychology & Psychological Therapies, Barnet Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust.
2. Harper, D., & Vakili, K. (2007). From stigma to discrimination. Paper presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Endicott College, Boston North Shore, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Harper, D., & Sholl, C. (2007). Working with young people to challenge discrimination against mental health service users: a psychosocial approach. Paper presented at the Social Inclusion seminar, BPS, London Office.
4. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Sutton, N. (2006). Marginalisation and paranoia. Paper presented at the ‘Qualitative Research and Marginalisation’ conference, Leicester University.
5. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Reavey, P. (2006). Mental health teaching in UK psychology: results of a survey. Paper presented at the PLAT2006: Psychology, Learning & Teaching conference, St John University College, York.
6. Harper, D. (2006). Analysing accounts of ‘delusions’. Paper presented at the ‘Researching Narratives and Mental Health’ conference, Tavistock Centre.
7. Harper, D. (2006). Psychology’s past and present complicity in interrogation and torture. Paper presented at the ‘White Terror/Post Empire’ conference, London School of Economics.
8. Harper, D. (2006). ‘Working together in the critical mental health field’ symposium [Chair], Annual DCP Conference. Congress Hall, London.
9. Cromby, J., Harper, D., & Reavey, P. (2005). Mental health teaching to UK psychology undergraduates: summary of survey results. Paper presented at the ‘Psychology and mental health: new directions for undergraduate teaching’, Higher Education Academy Psychology day conference, BPS office, London.
10. Harper, D. (2005). Countering fear, stigma and discrimination about mental health distress. Paper presented at the ‘Fear Psychiatry and the State’ conference, Queen’s College, Cambridge.
11. Harper, D. (2005). Mental health legislation and human rights. Paper presented at the ‘Psychology & Human Rights’ inaugural meeting, British Psychological Society, University of Manchester.
12. Harper, D. (2005). Psychology and the War on Terror. Paper presented at the Psychology of Peace & Conflict seminar, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
13. Harper, D. (2005). Reconceptualising delusions and paranoia. Paper presented at the International conference of Critical Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
14. Cromby, J., & Harper, D. (2004). Paranoia and social inequality. Paper presented at the ‘Challenging inequalities: what can community psychologists do?’ conference, Exeter.
15. Harper, D. (2004). Rethinking paranoia. Paper presented at the ‘Visions & Voices’ conference. Hearing Voices Network, Dundee.
16. Harper, D. (2004). Rethinking paranoia. Paper presented at the ‘Paranoia: What can we know about it and how?’ conference, Manchester Metropolitan University.
17. Harper, D. (2004). The psychologists I have wanted to be, am now and want to be in the future. Paper presented at the DCP Affiliates Conference, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham.
18. Harper, D. (2003). Compromise or collusion, contradictory or critical? Reflections of one critical clinical psychologists’ involvement in UK Mental Health Act campaigns. Paper presented at the International Conference of Critical Psychology, University of Bath.
19. Harper, D. (2003). Deconstructing paranoia. Paper presented at the International Conference of Narrative Therapy & Community Work, University of Liverpool.
20. Harper, D. (2002). Risky talk: constructing narratives of danger in mental health. Paper presented at the Narrative and Health: Centre for Narrative Research Narrative Workshop IV, King’s College, Cambridge.
21. Harper, D. (2002). Social constructionism and formulation. Paper presented at the Theoretical Perspectives on Case Formulation: Is the Emperor Clothed?, University of West of England.
22. Harper, D. (2001). Discourse analysis and psychiatric medication. Paper presented at the Discourse Analysis: Real World Applications, BPS West Midlands Branch, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
23. Harper, D. (2001). Psychiatric and psychological concepts in understanding psychotic experiences: some challenges and dilemmas. Paper presented at the DCP symposium ‘Recent advances in psychological understanding of mental illness and psychotic experiences: The report of the Division of Clinical Psychology’ at British Psychological Society Centenary Conference, Glasgow.
24. Harper, D. (2000). Doing discourse analysis. Paper presented at the ‘Discursive Practice: Qualitative Inquiry and Action Research’ course, Bolton Institute, 3–5 May.
25. Harper, D. (2000). Moving beyond the tyranny of psychiatric language. Paper presented at the ‘Moving Beyond Maintenance: Making Recovery a Reality in Mental Health Services’ conference, Birmingham.
26. Harper, D. (1999). Social constructionist approaches to psychosis. Paper presented at the Merseyside Psychotherapy Institute ‘Psychotherapy of Psychosis’ Study day, Liverpool, The Western rooms, Anglican Cathedral.
27. Harper, D. (1997). The discursive construction of neuroleptic medication in paranoia. Paper presented at the ‘Qualitative Research and Clinical Psychology: Promoting the Interchange’ conference, Bangor.

Magazine Articles

1. Harper, D. (2004). Psychology and the ‘war on terror’ I: surveillance and interrogation. Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 14, 22–24.
2. Harper, D. (2002). Beyond the tyranny of experts. Open Mind, 115, 20–21.
3. Harper, D. (2002). When the drugs don’t work. Open Mind, 114, 8.
4. Harper, D. (2002). A summer of protests against the Mental Health Bill. Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 13(3rd Qtr), 4–6.
5. Harper, D. (2002). The tyranny of expert language. Open Mind, 113, 8–9.
6. Harper, D. (2000). Spirituality and therapy as spaces within which to question. Context: A Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 48, 9–11.
7. Harmsworth, P., Harper, D., Marks, H., & Spellman, D. (1996). Nurturing a narrative approach. Context: A News Magazine of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 26, 22–25.

Newspaper Articles

1. Harper, D. (2002, 13 August). Choice not compulsion. Dave Harper explains the reasons for yesterday’s London protest against the government’s draft Mental Health Bill. Morning Star, p. 7.