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Thomas Jamieson-Craig

Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig MB BS (Uni West Indies), PhD (Uni London) FRCPsych

Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry

Research interests

  • Mental Health
  • Psychiatry

Contact details

Biography

Post-graduate training in psychiatry in Nottingham UK and later as research fellow at Bedford College (London) and the Maudsley hospital. My first senior clinical academic post was with the United Medical & Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas Hospitals later incorporated within King’s College London where I was appointed as professor in 1990. I also worked clinically as a consultant psychiatrist in the South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust since that time.  I was the President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry 2013-16. My main areas of expertise are in health service development and evaluation including psychosocial interventions for psychosis.  I retired in 2016 but continue an active research interest specifically focused on AVATAR therapy – a psychological treatment for auditory verbal hallucinations.

 

Research Interests

  • Social causation of common mental disorders and psychosis
  • Services for psychoses (early intervention, rehabilitation, social care, employment, housing, psychosocial therapies)

Teaching

  • Rehabilitation Psychiatry (Social and Community Mental Health MSc )
  • Social Psychiatry (MSc in Global Mental Health
  • Measuring stressful experiences (lecture in the Clinical Neuropsychiatry MSc)

Expertise and Public Engagement

  • Panel member NICE : Rehabilitation for adults with complex psychosis
  • Former president and advisor World Association of Social Psychiatry

    Research

    avatar logo
    AVATAR2

    AVATAR therapy offers a new approach to working with distressing voices (auditory hallucinations), using digital technology to allow ‘face-to-face’ dialogue between the voice-hearer and a computerised representation of their voice (the avatar). We are now taking this forward in the AVATAR2 trial.

    AVATAR_head_only_large
    The Avatar Project

    The AVATAR Project was a clinical research trial of an innovative new therapeutic treatment designed to help people suffering from distressing voices.

    Project status: Completed

    News

    IoPPN host delegation from Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Health

    Visit underlines partnership and collaboration in the use of electronic health records and digital therapies, and for a new Perinatal Mental Health Centre in...

    IoPPN MoU Indonesia 780x440

    AVATAR and SloMo digital therapies for psychosis recommended for use in NHS

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended two digital health technologies for psychosis developed at the Institute of...

    AVATAR and SloMo V2

    Professor Dame Til Wykes and Emeritus Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig receive prestigious Schizophrenia International Research Society awards

    The Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) has announced Professor Dame Til Wykes as winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Emeritus...

    Til Wykes Tom Craig SIRS awards 2024

      Research

      avatar logo
      AVATAR2

      AVATAR therapy offers a new approach to working with distressing voices (auditory hallucinations), using digital technology to allow ‘face-to-face’ dialogue between the voice-hearer and a computerised representation of their voice (the avatar). We are now taking this forward in the AVATAR2 trial.

      AVATAR_head_only_large
      The Avatar Project

      The AVATAR Project was a clinical research trial of an innovative new therapeutic treatment designed to help people suffering from distressing voices.

      Project status: Completed

      News

      IoPPN host delegation from Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Health

      Visit underlines partnership and collaboration in the use of electronic health records and digital therapies, and for a new Perinatal Mental Health Centre in...

      IoPPN MoU Indonesia 780x440

      AVATAR and SloMo digital therapies for psychosis recommended for use in NHS

      The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended two digital health technologies for psychosis developed at the Institute of...

      AVATAR and SloMo V2

      Professor Dame Til Wykes and Emeritus Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig receive prestigious Schizophrenia International Research Society awards

      The Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) has announced Professor Dame Til Wykes as winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Emeritus...

      Til Wykes Tom Craig SIRS awards 2024