Art and Psychiatry
Tba
MD FRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist
Medical Director Research, Innovation and Medical Education
Body Psychotherapist
Medical Director Research, Innovation and Medical Education
Body Psychotherapist
Professional Biography:
Community support worker in a Psychiatric Day Centre for chronic mentally ill patients in Hagen, Germany;
Part time psychiatric nurse assistant in acute psychiatric hospital
(St. Johannes Hospital in Hagen/Germany).
Training in Integrative Body psychotherapy (M. Janssen, Netherlands/ A. Addington, USA);
Medical Qualification (MBBS equivalent in Germany).
I completed my M.D. at Free University Berlin/Germany, (Doctor of Medicine by Thesis): “Body concept and body schema and their relationship with psychopathological symptoms within acute paranoid schizophrenia”.Specialist Training in Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychosomatic Medicine.
Consultant Psychiatrist, Newham Community NHS Trust / East London & the City University Mental Health NHS Trust, now East London NHS Foundation Trust. Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health in Newham;
Consultant Psychiatrist, Newham Community NHS Trust / East London & the City University Mental Health NHS Trust, now East London NHS Foundation Trust. Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health in Newham;
Since 2013
Medical Director Research & Innovation East London
Memberships and Appointments:
Memberships and Appointments:
Member/Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych); Member of the German Association for Psychosomatic Medicine. Chair of the research section of German Association for Body Psychotherapy (part of European Association of Body Psychotherapy).
Patron of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK.
2003-208: Honorary Senior Lecturer, QMUL
2008-2011: Visiting Professor University of Hertfordshire, School of Psychology
2011-12017: Honorary Professor University of Essex, Centre for Psychonanalytic Studies, UK
Since 2012: Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, St George's Medical School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
2011-12017: Honorary Professor University of Essex, Centre for Psychonanalytic Studies, UK
Since 2012: Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, St George's Medical School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Since 2017: Honorary Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London