Curriculum
vitae (rŽsumŽ)
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Dr Bob
Johnson |
Professional
Address: P O Box
49 Ventnor, PO38 9AA, UK |
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Co-founder
James Nayler Foundation |
Tel 01983 731 827 e-mail: DrBob@TruthTrustConsent.com Back to Home page |
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Registration:
GMC specialist
register psychiatry (registration number 0400150)
Qualifications:
MA (Psychol)
Cambridge University 1958
MB BChir
Cambridge University 1961
Diploma in
Psychotherapy Neurology & Psychiatry (Psychiatric Institute New York City)
1965
DPM (Diploma
in Psychological Medicine) 1967
MRCPsych
(Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists) 1973
MRCGP
(Member of Royal College of General Practitioners) 1974
PhD (medical
computing), Manchester University 1980
Clinical
Experience:
Dr Bob
Johnson has developed a high profile as an expert in the management and
treatment of Personality Disorders through his work from 1991 to 1996 as
consultant psychiatrist in the Special Unit in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight,
UK, for exceptionally dangerous and disturbed Personality Disordered prisoners.
While there he devised techniques to motivate and assist violent, severe
Personality Disorders - reducing the level of violence there (including the
number of alarm bells rung) by over 90%.
He trained
at Cambridge University, the London Hospital, and at the renowned Claybury
Hospital, Essex, where he obtained a grounding in group work and therapeutic
community techniques.
In 1964/65
he was a Senior Psychiatrist in Middletown State Hospital New York, working in
the Drug Addiction Unit and the acute wards and underwent further training at
the prestigious New York State Psychiatric Institute, leading to the Diploma In
Psychotherapy Neurology & Psychiatry.
From August
1995 to January 1997 he worked alongside Dr de Zulueta, a leading expert in the
field, in the Trauma Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Working
together, they developed innovative group and individual psychotherapies for
borderline and other severe Personality Disorders.
In 1997, he
was consultant psychiatrist to the Retreat, a private Quaker Psychiatric
Hospital in York, England, treating anorexics and other life-threatening
Personality Disorders.
In 1998 he
was invited to become Head of Therapy in the Personality Disorder Unit at
Ashworth Special Hospital, Maghull, Liverpool. The post of Head of Therapy
there was especially created for him, to accommodate his experience and
expertise.
His work has
been widely reported in the press, and formed the basis of a documentary
investigation by the BBC's flagship programme Panorama (3rd March 1997).
He has
described his approach in a regular series of articles in the national
newspaper, The Guardian, 1994-6, which raised a lot of interest among
professionals in the field, as a consequence of which his lectures are in great
demand.
In 1988 he
took a sabbatical year funded by the Department of Health to study the effects
of child abuse and the provision of child care in the United States. He
presented a paper at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Annual Conference in
1995, on 'The Psychiatry of Violence'.
Legal
& Court Work:
He has now
provided medico-legal reports for a wide variety of cases, examining and
preparing reports on diverse individuals who are appearing before the courts or
facing tribunals within the prison system. The majority of these cases have
concerned individuals with mild to severe Personality Disorder. His psychiatric
assessments provide a detailed view on their prognosis, their treatment and
their causative factors. At a
rough estimate, he has been able to divert the equivalent of 100 years of
prison sentencing.
He ran a
clinic in York for Personality Disordered patients referred by solicitors,
courts, social services and others.
Book:
In 2000, he
was contracted to write a book due for publication in November 2000. However the
publishing company went bankrupt, and the James Nayler Foundation published the
book in 2002. The title is
Emotional Health, it has sold over 2000 copies, the proceeds going to support
the James Nayler Foundation/
Current
Position:
He acts as
Consultant to the James Nayler Foundation, a charity set up to further
research, education, training and treatment for all types of personality
disorders, especially those involving violence to others or to self.
He is
currently working to set up an Emotion Support Centre on the Isle of Wight,
which can assist and generally cure those with severe panic attacks or other
manifestations of personality or emotional disorder.
He is
preparing a new book on how Emotional Education works in practice. He is also preparing a database
of some 1500 hours of treatment, showing how multiple personality disorders,
anorexia, self-harm, bipolar disease, and other psychoses can be cured with this
approach.
Bob
Johnson
Tuesday, 21
August 2005