Staff

Dr John McGowan  is the Year 1 Director and Academic Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Scheme.

John completed his degree in psychology from Strathclyde University in 1990. and a PhD University of Wales (Cardiff) in 1995. His research area was failures in skilled performance and attentional mechanisms. This was followed by two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex in the psychopharmacology specialty looking at the effects of hormone replacement therapy on cognitive performance in aging. He completed the clinical psychology training at Salomons in 2000.

Since qualifying he has worked in the NHS in Kent and Sussex predominantly as a Psychologist attached to inpatient psychiatric wards. His interests include presentations labelled as personality disorders, issues in risk assessment and management, formulation in complex care, the role of psychological practitioners in multi-disciplinary teams and the role of psychological thinking in inpatient environments. He has also published work considering aspects of cognitive-behaviour therapy for psychosis. His clinical orientation is primarily psychodynamic and he has had specialist training in cognitive-analytic therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and mentalisation-based therapy.

Tel: 01892 507778