Department of Psychology
John Read
Clinical Psychologist (NZ registered psychologist)
PhD
Before joining the University in 1994, John worked for twenty years as a Clinical Psychologist, mostly with people experiencing psychosis, and as a manager of mental health services. He is the Editor of the journal ‘Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches’ and the coordinating editor of ‘Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches’ (Routledge, 2004). He is also on the Executive Board of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia (www.isps.org). In 2010 he received the New Zealand Psychological Society’s Sir Thomas Hunter Award for ‘excellence in scholarship, research and professional achievement’
Psycho-social causes of psychosis, primary prevention, attitudes towards 'mental illness', the role of the pharmaceutical industry in clinical research and practice.
- READ J, SANDERS P. (2010) A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems. PCCS Books
- GEEKIE J, READ J. (2009) Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia. Routledge
- READ J, BENTALL R, FOSSE, R. (2009) Time to abandon the bio-bio-bio model of psychosis: Exploring the epigenetic and psychological mechanisms by which adverse life events lead to psychotic symptoms. Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale, 18, 299-310
- READ J, HASLAM N, SAYCE L. DAVIES E. (2006) Prejudice and schizophrenia: A review of the ‘Mental illness is an Illness like any other’ approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 114, 303-318
- READ J, MOSHER L, BENTALL R. (eds). (2004) Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia. Routledge
