Dr Gary Winship (PhD, MA, RMN, Dip Gp Psych, Cert Add):
GW has been involved in the development of NHS psychological therapy since 1980. He
is particularly interested in developing our understanding of the dynamics of social
exclusion and the key impingements on emotional well-being including; family fracture,
drugs, violence and self-harm (including suicide, eating disorders, dual diagnosis
and personality disorders). As a specialist in group dynamics Gary has also been
developing a theory of group dynamics and peer relations examining how group relating
capabilities emerge during childhood and adolescence, and how we might understand
the dynamics of pro-social and anti-social gang, group and team (including sports)
dynamics. He has worked as an external consultant with Great Ormond Street hospital developing
their web-based information on substance misuse. Appointed as a clinical governance
reviewer for CHIA in 2000.
EXPERT TAG LINE: Self-harm, suicide, substance misuse (drugs & alcohol), gangs, bullying,
knife crime, violent conduct & its management, transgenerational features of mental
disorder & mental trauma, football (sport as social inclusion), arson, fire-starting,
green therapy, social inclusion, personality disorder, depression, therapeutic democracy,
therapeutic anarchy (esp chaos theory in human relations), human relations: organisations
& institutions, group dynamics, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, psychosis,
depression, art therapy, Samuel Beckett, Jurgen Habermas, Eric Fromm, Herbert Marcuse,
Karl Mannheim, Sigmund Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, Alfred Adler, Jacques Lacan, Ronnie
Laing, psychiatry-anti-psychiatry, acute psychiatry, community psychiatry, therapeutic
communities, poetics in therapy, Sylvia Plath, arts as therapy, spitting, vandalism,
graffiti, happiness (Marx), siblings, birth order and only children (oneliness).
ssociate Editor of the Journal of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and editorial
board member of Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. His paper: Further Thoughts on
the Process of Restraint (2006) was cited by Amnesty International and was Blackwell's
3rd most downloaded JPMHN paper in 2006-7. He is currently the chair of the appointments
panel for the Annual Eileen Skellern Lecture & Blackwell's Lifetime Achievement Award. External
examiner for the Cassel Hospital MA in psychosocial practice (2005-2009). ESRC grant
holder looking at the psychosocial aspects of malicious fire starting (2004-2007),
an article in the Times (2009) described GW as one of the two leading experts in
the UK on the psychology of fire starting. Treasurer for the Association of Therapeutic
Communities (ATC) 2001-2007, full member of Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
in the NHS (APP), member ISPS UK. Course leader for MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy
with Children & Young People.
