Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, Where he became Director of The Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme. He held the same postion at The University of Liverpool when he returned to the UK In 2013. He is Currently Professor of Clinical Psycholgy at The University of East London and Chair of The Intertnational Institute For Psychaiatric Drug Withdrawal. He is the author of over 150 Research Papers, co-editor (with Jacqui Dillon) of Models of Madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to psychosis (Routledge, 2013) and founding editor of the research journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.