Staff

Anne Cooke is Academic and Research Tutor on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology.  She gained an MA in linguistics and German from Edinburgh University in 1985.  She then worked in television before deciding to change careers and train as a clinical psychologist.  After working in psychiatric hospitals for two years and undertaking a postgraduate conversion course in psychology, she trained at the Institute of Psychiatry and qualified in 1992.   Since then she has worked in NHS mental health services, mostly in inner city London.  Until taking up her present post at Salomons in 1999, she managed the psychology service for adults of working age in South Camden.  Whilst continuing her clinical work part time, she held a Lecturer post on the Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology at University College London from 1997-9, and retains an Honorary lectureship at UCL.  Her clinical and research interests include the links between traumatic experiences and psychosis, and collaborative approaches between mental health workers and service users. She works one day a week for the South London and Maudsley Trust, designing and managing a mental health education project aimed at countering negative and inaccurate stereotyping of people who are diagnosed as "mentally ill".  Since 1997 she has been Honorary Media Officer for the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology, and is a co-ordinating editor of the Division's recent report entitled "Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences".