Staff
Co-Directors of CSCRDigby Tantam and Emmy van Deurzen |
Digby TantamDigby Tantam BA (Open), BM BCh MA (Oxon), MPH (Harvard), PhD (London), FRCPsych, AFBPsS, BACP, UKCP, ILTMis Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy in the University of Sheffield, and an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist and Psychiatrist with Community Health Sheffield. He is a partner in Dilemma Consultancy in Human Relations. He has a long-standing clinical interest in autism, particularly Asperger syndrome, and has published on this disorder, on empathy and aggression in this disorder and on various aspects of psychotherapy. |
Emmy van DeurzenMaitrise de Philosophie (Montpellier), Maitrise en Psychopathologie (Bordeaux), PhD (City), CPsychol, FBPsS, UKCP Regis Professor of Psychotherapy at Schiller International University, Dean of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Honorary Professor in the University of Sheffield. Emmy is also a partner in Dilemma Consultancy in Human Relations. She is trained as a philosopher, counselling psychologist and psychotherapist. She has a long-standing research interest in alienation and re-socialisation and in the personal factors that lead to self-harm, and has collaborated with the Samaritans in developing research in this area. |
Other staffChristopher Blackmore BSc, MA, PGDipCoun (Sheffield)is a Research Associate in the CSCR and he also holds an honorary contract as a Counsellor with Sheffield Care Trust's Counselling Service for Adults with Asperger's Syndrome. He has research interests in Asperger syndrome, learning disabilities, psychotherapy, internet studies, e-learning and the use of creative writing for therapeutic purposes. He is currently studying for a PhD in ScHARR. Paul Naylor CertEd, BEd (Birmingham); BA (Open); MA, PhD (Loughborough); CSci, FHEA is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Conflict and Reconciliation. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Education in the University of Nottingham on projects on successful school leadership and widening participation in higher education, amongst others. Prior to that and for almost six years, he was a Research Fellow in the Roehampton University where he worked on projects concerned with school and workplace bullying, anti-bullying peer support systems, and adolescents’ understanding of mental health. And before that, he was a secondary school teacher of geography who completed a PhD on teacher racism by part-time study. Now, by inclination and training, he thinks of himself as a social and developmental psychologist with keen interests in pro- and anti-social interpersonal behaviour. |
Associate staffChristopher Cordess BA, MB ChB, BAO, MA, MRCP, MPhil, FRCPsychis Professor Emeritus of Forensic Psychiatry in the University of Sheffield. He is an Associate member of the British Psycho-Analytic Society. He has written about poisoning, and is a nationally recognised expert in the assessment and treatment of women who harm or kill children. He has a particular interest in the psychotherapy of offenders. Nick Huband RMN, PhD (Nottm), DipCouns is an Associate Research Fellow in the University of Sheffield and a Clinical Research Fellow based in Leicestershire. He is a qualified nurse and counsellor and has recently held a Smith & Nephew Research Fellowship to study the nature and management of self-wounding in women. He has clinical experience with self-destructive and eating disordered clients, and is involved in co-ordinating a major project to evaluate a treatment for personality disorder in the community. |
Research students (all part-time)Chris Blackmore. Researching: The online self in e-learning and psychotherapy training. Supervisory team: Dr Nick Fox, Professor Digby Tantam, & Dr Jo Nash.Carole Hirst. Researching: Living with depression). Supervisory team: Dr Paul Naylor, & Dr Kim Dent-Brown. Pamela Martin. Researching: Violent women and the inferiority complex. Supervisor: Professor Digby Tantam. Susan Montgomery. Researching: Process in person-centred psychotherapy. Supervisory team: Dr Paul Naylor, Dr Lorraine Ellis & Dr Carl Edwards. Mark Naylor. Researching: A preliminary investigation into whether childhood experience, a lack of empathy or a combination of both lead to violence in people with Asperger syndrome. Supervisor: Professor Digby Tantam & Dr Petra Meier. Laurie Petch. Researching: The efficacy of existential group intervention for school children with high anxiety. Supervisory team: Dr Paul Naylor, Professors Emmy van Deurzen & Digby Tantam. Fatemeh Zarif-Hoshyar. Researching: People's resilience to isolation. Supervisory team: Dr Paul Naylor, Professors Digby Tantam & Emmy van Deurzen. |