Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of Users and abusers of psychiatry (2nd edition Routledge 2000), co-editor of Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems (Routledge, 2nd edition due in August 2013) and author of A straight-talking guide to psychiatric diagnosis (PCCS Books 2014), along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health.

She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate. She has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, and has a particular interest in the more severe forms of mental distress and in developing alternatives to traditional psychiatric theory and practice. She is an experienced conference speaker, lecturer and trainer.