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Professor Anthony David

Professor Anthony David

Professor of Mental Health and Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health

Department : Institute of Mental Health

Faculty : Faculty of Brain Sciences

Address : 602 SIXTH FLOOR
MAPLE HOUSE
149 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
LONDON
W1T 7DN

Languages spoken fluently (other than English) : None specified

+44 (0)20 3108 6433

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My main area of expertise is 'insight' in major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia - the extent to which people realise (or not) that they are unwell. I am interested in neuropsychiatry - the interface between neurology and psychiatry. Other areas of specific expertise and depersonalisation disorder; auditory hallucinations; functional neurological disorders. The flourishing literature drawn from case histories in neurology and psychiatry (eg Oliver Sacks)

Research groups:

/mental-health/
https://mhj.org.uk

Research publications:

Kircher T & David AS (eds) (2003) The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Amador XF & David AS (eds) (2004) Insight and Psychosis: awareness of illness in schizophrenia and related disorders (2nd ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Baker D, Hunter E, Lawrence E & David A. (2007; revised 2018) Overcoming Depersonalisation and Feelings of Unreality. Constable-Robinson, London.
David AS, Fleminger S, Kopelman M, Lovestone S, Mellers J (ds) (2009). Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry: A Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Revised 4th Ed). Wiley-Blackwell.

Personal web address: None specified

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Member British Neuropsychiatry Association; British Neuropsychology Society; Fellow Royal College of Psychiatrists; Fellow Academic of Medical Sciences

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Example video clips:

Depersonalisation Recovery film (2017): https://youtu.be/GWyidaGteGg
Depersonalisation Clinic film (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Dr8jt_Ixg
2018: ‘The strange case of Dr Sacks’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsKP27jnP8
‘Knowing me knowing you…’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRPwHWT2sTw
‘Fighting stigma, and losing’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcxXmKVjUiY

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