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Ben Davidson,
based in Eastbourne, UK, is a psychiatric nurse, group analyst
and senior university lecturer. His special interests are
ideology and clinical practice in the field of mental health
care, with a particular focus on the politics, ethics and
spiritual potential of psychiatric crises and mental health
problems.
He co-ordinated
for its early years the Pathfinder User Employment Programme
at South West London & St. George's, supporting the
paid employment of people with a history of serious mental
health problems in clinical posts within a large London
Mental Health NHS Trust, and researching the impact of the
project on the lives of those concerned and the quality
of services in the Trust. He won the prestigious Nursing
Times/3M's 'Nurse of the Year' award for this work in 1999.
Ben is
Executive Editor of the journal group analysis. He has published
widely, most recently guest editing a special issue of the
journal entitled 'Group Analysis in the New Millennium',
also editing two texts in recent years and publishing approaching
30 journal articles and book chapters. He has retained an
Honorary Senior Lecturer role following a period working
full time as a Senior Lecturer at Southbank University,
teaching and supervising student and post-qualification
nurses.
Ben has 14 years experience of conducting
groups in the NHS and private healthcare settings, his practice
in recent years including psychotherapy for adults at the
Maudsley Hospital and adolescents at Nightingale Hospital,
both in London, also running patient groups, staff development
groups, supervision groups for trainee counsellors and experiential
groups for trainee psychotherapists at a number of NHS and
private clinics. In recent years he has also managed the
Children's Section of Croydon's CAMHS for the Maudsley and
South London Mental Health NHS Trust, and currently works
for Priory Healthcare as Service Development Manager for
six of its acute and.continuing care hospitals in the southeast,
in some of which he also practices as a group analyst.
On these pages you can access Ben's C.V.
and view his publications (some of which are reproduced
online), by clicking on the links above.
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