John Read (psychologist) explained

John Read is a psychologist and mental health researcher from England. He is professor of clinical psychology in the University of East London's School of Psychology.

Career

Read was formerly a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Auckland. His research interests include: attitudes towards 'mental illness', psycho-social causes of psychosis, and the role of the pharmaceutical industry in psychology.^[1]

Before joining the university in 1994, Read worked for twenty years as a manager of mental health services, working with people experiencing psychosis. He is the Editor of the journal Psychosis and is on the editorial boards of two other journals. He is also on the executive board of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia. Read is the editor of Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia (Routledge, 2004) which has sold over 10,000 copies and been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. In 2010 he received the New Zealand Psychological Society's Sir Thomas Hunter Award for 'excellence in scholarship, research and professional achievement'.^{[1] [2]}

In 2010, Read and Richard Bentall co-authored a literature review on "The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy" (ECT). It examined placebo-controlled studies and concluded ECT had minimal benefits for people with depression and schizophrenia.^[3] The authors said "given the strong evidence of persistent and, for some, permanent brain dysfunction, primarily evidenced in the form of retrograde and anterograde amnesia, and the evidence of a slight but significant increased risk of death, the cost-benefit analysis for ECT is so poor that its use cannot be scientifically justified".^[4] Psychiatrists, however, sharply criticized this paper in passing by calling it an "evidence-poor paper with an anti-ECT agenda".^[5]

Selected publications

• Book: Read. John. Sanders. Pete. A straight talking introduction to the causes of mental health problems. 2010. PCCS Books. 978-1906254193.
• Book: Geekie. Jim. Read. John. Making sense of madness: contesting the meaning of schizophrenia. 2009. Taylor & Francis. 978-0415461955.
• Varese. F. Smeets. F. Drukker. M. Lieverse. R. Lataster. T. Viechtbauer. W. Read. J. van Os. J. Bentall. RP. Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 38. 4. 661–71. 29 March 2012. 10.1093/schbul/sbs050. 22461484. 3406538.
• Read . John . Dillon . J . Lampshire . Deborah . Debra Lampshire. How much evidence is required for a paradigm shift in mental health? . Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica . 2014 . 129 . 6 . 477–4782 . 24215794 . 10.1111/acps.12216.
• Read . John . Cain . A . A literature review and meta-analysis of drug company funded mental health websites . Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica . 2013 . 128 . 6 . 422–433 . 23662697 . 10.1111/acps.12146.
• Read . John . Can Poverty Drive You Mad? 'Schizophrenia', Socio-Economic Status and the Case for Primary Prevention . New Zealand Journal of Psychology . 2010 . 39 . 2 . 7–19 . 8 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130208205223/http://www.psychology.org.nz/cms_show_download.php?id=966 . 8 February 2013 .
• Read. J. Bentall. RP. Fosse. R. Time to abandon the bio-bio-bio model of psychosis: Exploring the epigenetic and psychological mechanisms by which adverse life events lead to psychotic symptoms. Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale. October–December 2009. 18. 4. 299–310. 20170043. 10.1017/S1121189X00000257. free.
• Larkin. W. Read. J. Childhood trauma and psychosis: evidence, pathways, and implications. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. 2008. 54. 4. 287–293. 18953148. 10.4103/0022-3859.41437. free. 1807/52216. free.
• Read. J. Haslam. N. Sayce. L. Davies. E. Prejudice and schizophrenia: a review of the 'mental illness is an illness like any other' approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. November 2006. 114. 5. 303–318. 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00824.x. 5 April 2012. 17022790.
• Read. J. van Os. J. Morrison. AP. Ross. CA. Childhood trauma, psychosis and schizophrenia: a literature review with theoretical and clinical implications. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. November 2005. 112. 5. 330–350. 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2005.00634.x. 16223421. 5 April 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130509113642/http://healingattention.org/documents/doc_litreviewpsychosis.pdf. 9 May 2013. dmy-all.
• Book: Read. John. Mosher. Loren. Loren Mosher. Bentall. Richard. Richard Bentall. Models of madness: psychological, social and biological approaches to schizophrenia. 2004. Brunner-Routledge. 978-1583919064.
• The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy: a literature review.^[6]

See also

• Richard Bentall
• Hearing Voices Network
• Index of psychology articles
• Loren Mosher
• Outline of psychology
• Psychosis (journal)
• Jim van Os

External links

• Staff profile at the University of East London

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Read Biography . Department of Psychology, University of Auckland . https://web.archive.org/web/20120229074829/http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/john-read/ . 29 February 2012 . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Prestigious Awards in Psychology . 26 July 2010 . NZDoctor . 16 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130922172057/http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2010/july-2010/26/prestigious-awards-in-psychology.aspx . 22 September 2013 . dead .
3. Web site: Mental health care inquiry . Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie . 6 September 2011 . The Age .
4. Read. J. Bentall, R. The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy: a literature review.. Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale. Oct–Dec 2010. 19. 4. 333–47. 21322506. 10.1017/S1121189X00000671. 17 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120524053142/http://www.power2u.org/downloads/1012-ReadBentallECT.pdf. 24 May 2012. dead.
5. McCall WV, Andrade C, Sienaert P . Searching for the mechanism(s) of ECT's therapeutic effect . The Journal of ECT . 30 . 2 . 87–9 . 2014 . 24755719 . 4695970 . 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000121 .
6. 21322506 . 10.1017/S1121189X00000671 . 19 . 4 . The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy: a literature review . 2010 . Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci . 333–47 . Read . J . Bentall . R.