Dr STIRLING MOOREY is a consultant medical psychotherapist psychiatrist in CBT at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an honorary senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London. He was professional Head of Psychotherapy for the Trust until July 2013. He trained in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1980. He became interested in cognitive therapy whilst doing an intercalated BSc in psychology at medical school, and in 1979 he did his student elective with Dr Aaron Beck at the Centre for Cognitive Therapy ? being one of the first British therapists to visit when CBT was in its infancy. He had the good fortune to be trained and supervised by two major contributors to the field of cognitive therapy: David Burns (www.feelinggood.com) the author of Feeling Good and Art Freeman (drartfreeman.com). He has been closely involved with CBT ever since, organising visits to the UK by Dr Beck during the 1980s and 90s and training many psychiatrists and other health professionals in the model.
Stirling trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. From 1986 to 1992, he was a research psychiatrist at the Royal Marsden Hospital and from 1992 to 1999, he was a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy at City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust, from where he moved back to the Maudsley to take up his present post.
He has clinical interests in CBT for people with life-threatening illness, CBT in personality disorder, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. He has a deep interest in training clinicians from all professions in CBT. He was co-founder with Mrs Ruth Williams and Dr John Cobb of the Institute of Psychiatry Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Course, which was the first cognitive therapy course in the country. He is still actively involved with this course and has made many contributions to the training of psychiatrists in CBT and psychotherapy. His main research interests are in CBT as applied to cancer and physical illness.
In addition to CBT Stirling has also trained in cognitive analytic therapy and is training in schema therapy.
Qualifications:
BSc, MBBS, FRCPsych
BABCP accredited therapist, supervisor and trainer.
Accredited CAT practitioner.
STEVEN GREER, M.D., F.R.C.Psych, graduated from the University of Adelaide and obtained his postgraduate training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London.
He was Reader in Psychological Medicine at King s College School of Medicine, London, where he was a co-founder of Psycho-Oncology in the U.K.
Subsequently, he was Director of the Cancer Research Campaign Psychological Medicine Group at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey. His principal research activities during the last 30 years have comprised psychological and psychobiological investigations of patients with cancer.
Dr Greer has written extensively on psycho-oncology and has, together with his colleagues, developed a form of psychotherapy, based on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), but specifically designed to improve the quality of life of patients with cancer. He was the one to introduce the term "fighting spirit" in the psycho-oncology literature.
He emphasizes the particular debt he owes to his patients, who taught him about the personal meaning of cancer, about courage, endurance and despair, and about how death can be faced.
He is Reader in Psychological Medicine, Institute of Cancer Research and Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Raphael s Hospice, Surrey, U.K.
