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 sevices 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 working 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, and currently sees adults at the Maudsley Hospital and adolescents at Nightingale Hospital, both in London, for group psychotherapy, 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 as part of his growing private practice. He also manages the Children's Section of Croydon's CAMHS for the Maudsley and South London Mental Health NHS Trust.

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