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Gary Winship

Professor of Trauma, Education and Mental Health, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Professor Gary Winship Professor of Trauma, Education & Mental Health, School of Education, 糖心原创. Course Leader MA Trauma Informed Practice. UKCP registered psychotherapist. NMC registered Mental Health Nurse.

Research focus and clinical expertise: Suicide, Addictions, Psychosis, Violence (homicide and knife crime), complex trauma, personality disorders. Schools and psychotherapy, mental health vulnerability. Psychoeducation for young persistent fire setters with Notts Fire and Rescues Services. Co-investigator on an NIHR programme researching Recovery Colleges. Suicide research network (2012-2018) which brought together key stakeholders in Nottingham after a serious spike in suicides among young people in Nottingham. Core members of the network were Dr Nigel Chapman (Notts Coroner), Dr Dilip Nathan (medical lead of the child death overview panel).

Professor Winship worked in the NHS for 30 years (acute and community services with people with severe and complex trauma), latterly consultant psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital and HMP Dovegate. Other NHS clinical appointments have been, West Berkshire NHS Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Trained HIV counsellor. Appointed as a clinical governance reviewer for the Commission for Health Audit & Improvement (CHAI) in 2000. He has held teaching positions in 7 different universities: Goldsmiths, University of East London, University of Greenwich, University College London, University of Reading, Sheffield University & 糖心原创. He has been an external examiner to mental health courses; Cassel Hospital (UEL), Southern Counties Psychotherapy (Newman, Birmingham), MA working with Personality Disorders (Newman), BA in Counselling (University of Worcester), PGDip/MA Counselling, Kellog College, Oxford.

Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Psychotherapy (2022-2026). Consulting Editor International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Member of executive steering group, and Education Lead, Institute of Mental Health (IMH). Published 150 + papers and chapters, 6 books. Delivered 50+ keynote addresses in 8 different countries. Part of research grant captures of 拢2.8m with more 拢300K as project lead. Formerly visiting professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis and Russian State University for Humanities (RSUH).

Recent Key note presentations:

Winship, G (2025) Transgenerational trauma and suicide - assessing risks. One day conference (organised by GW) in collaboration with Nottingham Counselling Services, Notts Health Care Trust, HIMMAH & 糖心原创. Sponsored by BACP. Trauma in Lower Socio-Economic and Racialised Communities. Speakers, Shoana Qureshi-Khan (Chief Executive Officer, Nottingham Counselling Services), Dr Saima Masud (Consultant clinical psychologist, Notts Healthcare Trust), Sajid Mohammed (CEO HIMMAH). School of Education, 糖心原创. July 11. 2025.

Winship, G (2025) Clinical supervision demonstration. Pakistan First National Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Conference. Aga Khan University, Karachi. April 14.

Winship, G (2025) The evolution of psychotherapy in Russia and China - What lessons for Pakistan? Pakistan First National Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Conference. Aga Khan University, Karachi. April 11-14. See report IMH.

Previous media experience includes BBC East Midlands Today, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio 2, Nottingham evening post and the Daily Telegraph.

Books:

Winship, G. & Macdonald, S. (2018) New Ingredients of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools - Mental Health Leadership in Schools. London. Routledge.

Del Nevo, M. & Winship, G. (2015) Sex and Religion - Lou Andreas-Salome, The Devil and His Grandmother, and Three Letters to a Young Boy (with translation by Orgel, M & Jennings, K). New York. Transactions Press.

Winship, G. & Del-Nevo, M. (2012) The Erotic - Lou Andreas Salome. New Jersey. Transaction Press, Rutgers.

Winship, G. (2012) Why People Take Drugs. The Psychology of Addictive Personalities. The Spike & the Moon London. Karnac Books. .

Pedder., J.R. (2011) From New Beginnings to Graduation in Psychoanalytic Therapy - Collected papers of J R Pedder, edited with commentary by Winship, G. London. Karnac Books.

Bowers, L., Brennan, G., Winship, G. & Theodoridou, C. (2010) Talking with Acutely Psychotic People. Communication Skills for Nurses and Others Spending Time with People who are very Mentally Ill. London. City University Monograph.

Expertise Summary

2025-2028. Lead Expert, Ontario State Government. Retained in a Class Action case, Banmann v Ontario,

2025-2026. External member, Trauma Competency Framework Group, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

2025 Reference: NIHR506105 - Evaluating and optimising mandatory health labels on alcohol including a world-first cancer warning. Contracting Organisation: University of Stirling. Lead Applicant: Professor Niamh Fitzgerald, University of Stirling. Joint Lead Applicants: Nathan Critchlow, University of Stirling. 拢4.7M.

2022-Present Research Lead University Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (UPCA).

2022 NIHR204148 Reviewer Optimising cultural expeRIences for mental health in underrepresented younG people onlINe (ORIGIN). 拢2.7M. Lead Applicant: Dr Rebecca Syed Sheriff. Institution: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

2021 NIHR Reviewer. LC - Full - COV-LT2-0010 - Using Activity Tracking and Just-In-Time Messaging to Improve Adaptive Pacing: A Pragmatic Randomised Control Trial.

2018 Nursing and Midwifery Council MH specialist for LSBU's Mental Health Nursing programme re-accreditation.

2013-present. IMH Operational Executive group member.

2006-present. Chaired 15 appointments panels across 3 schools, (Nursing, Business, Psychology).

2011-2017. Training standards chair for the University Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (UPCA).

2006-2013. Editor of Research in Brief section in: Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. JPMHN has an impact factor of 1.082

2003. University of Greenwich. Visiting Lecturer & module convenor, BA Psychology, module on psychiatry [0.2FTE].

1998-2012. Editorial Board Member: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care (US based nursing journal)

1998-2004. Oxford Brookes. Southern Counties Psychotherapy Training, p/t tutor, group psychotherapy clinical supervisor [0.1FTE].

1998-2001. University of East London. BA Psychosocial studies seminar group leader, visiting tutor. [6 days PA].

2006-2020. Chair of Appointments panel Skellern Lecture & Wiley/Blackwell JPMHN Lifetime Achievement Award. The event has been hugely successful and well regarded by practitioners, and the academic community, and recipients since 2006 have been a blend of practitioners and academics. Two of the best-known Lifetime recipients are Helen Bamber and Jo Brand.

2002-2006. Goldsmiths, University College London. MA in Group Psychotherapy, visiting tutor & module leader; social and cultural processes. [10 days PA].

2002-2004. UCL, visiting tutor, MRCPsych, teaching trainee psychiatrists about personality disorder and Therapeutic Communities. [1-day PA].

2001-2007. Association of Therapeutic Communities [ATC, now TCTC] - Treasurer, responsible for all ATC accounts including, research, journal and conference accounts (over 拢0.5 million through the accounts during time in office). The ATC is an umbrella organisation that representing over 80 TC across the UK in collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatrists quality service network for TCs

Selected Publications

  • WINSHIP, G., 2011. Addictive personalities and why people take drugs: the spike and the moon Karnac Books.

Gary is a member of the . His research supervision areas include:

  • self-harm
  • suicide
  • substance misuse (drugs and alcohol)gangs
  • bullying
  • knife crime
  • violent conduct and its management
  • transgenerational features of mental disorder and mental trauma
  • football (sport as social inclusion)
  • arson
  • fire-starting
  • green therapy
  • social inclusion
  • personality disorder
  • depression
  • therapeutic democracy
  • therapeutic anarchy (especially chaos theory in human relations)
  • human relations

Research topics of current and recent students include:

  • Thin slicing: analysing interaction in initial therapeutic encounters
  • Bullies and bystanders: dynamics of peer disengagement
  • Perceptions of school counsellors in Singapore
  • Childhood depression and stakeholder perceptions of diagnosis and use of anti-depressants
  • Attachment, Object relations and Addiction
  • Schooling in a post-industrial society

Research proposals: please email Gary if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also:

  • TAKHI S, JEBARA T, MCPHILBIN M, STEPANIAN K, DUNNETT D, GRANT-ROWLES J, OSMAN Y, WINSHIP G, REPPER J, RONALDSON A, NAMASABA M, KOTERA Y, BATES P, LAWRENCE S, KAPKA A, MEDDINGS S, RENNISON J, PATMORE L, HENDERSON C, SLADE M, BISHOP S and LAWRENCE V, 2026. Organisational variation in Recovery College implementation: a 31-college qualitative study BJPsych Open. 12, e49
  • HAYES D, CAMACHO E, RONALDSON A, STEPANIAN K, MCPHILBIN M, ELLIOTT R, REPPER J, BISHOP S, STERGIOPOULOS V, BROPHY L, GILES K, TRICKETT S, LAWRENCE S, WINSHIP G, MEDDINGS S, BAKOLIS I, HENDERSON C and SLADE M, 2024. Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity, and funding Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 59, 759-768
  • MCPHILBIN M, STEPANIAN K, YEO C, ELTON D, DUNNETT D, JENNINGS H, HUNTER-BROWN H, GRANT-ROWLES J, COOPER J, BARRET K, HAMIE M, BATES P, MCNAUGHTON R, TRICKETT S, BISHOP S, TAKHI S, LAWRENCE S, KOTERA Y, HAYES D, DAVIDSON L, WINSHIP G, RONALDSON A, JEBARA T, HALL C, BROPHY L, JEPPS J, MEDDINGS S, HENDERSON C, SLADE M and LAWRENCE V, 2024. Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study. BJPsych Open. 10, e113
  • PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S and WINSHIP, G, 2023. Nursing Philosophy. 24, e12418
  • HAYES D, HENDERSON C, BAKOLIS I, LAWRENCE V, ELLIOTT R, RONALDSON A, RICHARDS G, REPPER J, BATES P, BREWIN J, MEDDINGS S, WINSHIP G, BISHOP S, EMSLEY R, ELTON D, MCNAUGHTON R, WHITLEY R, SMELSON D, STEPANIAN K, MCPHILBIN M, DUNNETT D, HUNTER-BROWN H, YEO C, JEBARA T and SLADE M, 2022. BMC Psychiatry. 22, 627
  • PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S and WINSHIP, G, 2022. Psychosis. 16(1), 40-51
  • EMMA JOYES, MEL JORDAN, GARY WINSHIP and PAUL CRAWFORD, 2021. Inpatient institutional care: The forced social environment: "Keywords: recovery, social connectedness, interpersonal wellbeing, forensic mental health, inpatient secure care, ethnography, holistic wellbeing, therapeutic communities." Frontiers.
  • JOYES, E, JORDAN, M, WINSHIP, G and CRAWFORD, P, 2021. Frontiers in Psychology.
  • MARK PEARSON, STEFAN RENNICK-EGGLESTONE and GARY WINSHIP, 2020. Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 3(1),
  • WINSHIP, G and MACDONALD, S, 2018. The New Essential Ingredients of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools Routledge, London..
  • WINSHIP, G and WILLIAMS, I, 2018. Hope, Homeliness and Humour (H3) - ingredients for a therapeutic prison The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. 39(1), 3-9
  • WINSHIP, G, CHAMBERS, M, BRAY, J, HANNIGAN, B and HARDY, S, 2018. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
  • ARGYLE, E and WINSHIP, G, 2018. Creative practice with clay 鈥� a mutual route to recovery Journal of Arts and Health. (In Press.)
  • CLARKE, S, WINSHIP, G, CLARKE, J and MANNING, N, 2017. Therapeutic Communities. In: The Art and Craft of Mental Health Nursing London. Sage.
  • CLARKE, J, WINSHIP, G, CLARKE, S and MANNING, N, 2017. Therapeutic Communities. In: Mental Health Nursing London. Routledge.
  • BARKER, A.B. and WINSHIP, G., 2016. Recovery is no laughing matter 鈥� or is it? Mental Health and Social Inclusion. 20(3),
  • BARKER, A and WINSHIP, G, 2016. Mental Health & Social Inclusion. 20(3), 167-173
  • WINSHIP, G and MACDONALD, S, 2016. Primary School as Therapeutic Community International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. 37(2), 14-21
  • WINSHIP, G., 2016. JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING. 23(1), 66-73
  • WINSHIP G, 2016. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing. 23(1), 66-73
  • BARKER ALEX BYRON and WINSHIP GARY, 2016. Mental Health and Social Inclusion. 20(3), 167-173
  • WINSHIP, G & DEL-NEVO, M and DEL-NEVO, M, 2015. Sex and Religion: Louise Andreas-Salome Transaction, New York.
  • ELAINE ARGYLE and GARY WINSHIP, 2015. Mental Health and Social Inclusion: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30964/. 19(3), 141-147
  • ELAINE ARGYLE and GARY WINSHIP, 2015. Clay Transformations: transforming lives through mutual recovery In: 21st International network for psychiatric nursing research conference.
  • WINSHIP, G, 2014. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing.
  • WINSHIP, G, 2014. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 28(3), 282-294
  • WINSHIP, G, 2014. Austin Journal of Drug Abuse and Addiction. 1(1), 1-7
  • WINSHIP, G., 2013. Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. 34(2/3), n/a
  • WINSHIP, G and HARDY, S, 2013. Counselling and Psychotherapy. In: Theories for Mental Health Nursing Sage.
  • WINSHIP, G, 2013. The Self-Harming Therapist. In: Encounters with Self Harm PCCS Books.
  • WINSHIP, G and DEL-NEVO, M, 2012. Die Erotik - Lou Andreas-Salome Rutgers, Transaction Press.
  • WINSHIP, G, ed., 2011. From New Beginnings to Graduation in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The collected papers of J R Pedder: with chapter commentaries by Gary Winship Karnacs.
  • , WINSHIP, G and , 2011. Beckett, Bion, Chess & Schizophrenia. International Journal of Health Humanities. 32(4), 339-351
  • WINSHIP, G., 2011. Journal of Medical Humanities. 32(4), 339-351
  • WINSHIP, G., 2011. Addictive personalities and why people take drugs: the spike and the moon Karnac Books.
  • BOWERS, L, BRENNAN, G and WINSHIP,G & THEODORIDOU, C, 2010. Talking with Acutely Psychotic People.: Communication Skills for Nurses and Others Spending Time with People who very Mentally Ill. City University.
  • WINSHIP, G, 2010. Book Review: Case 糖心原创 Methods by Simons, H Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. (In Press.)
  • WINSHIP, G., BRAY, J., REPPER, J. and HINSHELWOOD, R.D., 2009. Journal of Research in Nursing. 14(6), 505-517
  • WINSHIP, G., 2009. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 25(1), 24-38
  • THEODORIDOU, C, BOWERS, L, BRENNAN, G and GILBERT, D & WINSHIP, G, 2009. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. 16(3), 234-241
  • WINSHIP, G., 2009. The Staff Group that wasn't to be. In: KENNARD, D., ed., Staff Support Groups Hodder Arnold.
  • WINSHIP, G, 2009. Grupperterapeutiske tilgange i sygeplejen (Group Therapy). In: BUUS, N, ed., Psykiatrisk sygepleje Dansk Sygeplejerard, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck A/S. 333-347
  • WINSHIP, G, REPPER, J and BRAY, J & HINSHELWOOD, R D, 2009. Collective biography and the origins of mental health nursing: the legacy of Hildegard Peplau, Annie Altschul & Eileen Skellern; and its relevance to the current crisis in psychiatry Journal of Research in Nursing. 14(6), p.505-517
  • WINSHIP, G., 2008. Taking anarchy seriously: the fourth strain of organisational, psychic & therapeutic progress Therapeutic Communities. 29(4), 381-392
  • WINSHIP, G., 2008. Therapeutic Communities. In: BARKER, P., ed., The Art and Craft of Caring Hodder Arnold.
  • WINSHIP, G. and REPPER, J., 2007. Group Analysis. 40(1), p.125-139
  • WINSHIP, G & HARDY, S, 2007. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. 14(2), 148鈥�154
  • WINSHIP, G., 2007. Perspective in Psychiatric Care. 43(4), 174-182
  • WINSHIP, G., 2006. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 13(1), 55-60
  • WINSHIP, G., 2006. Conference abstract: Psychotic fixation - connecting features of repetition-compulsion in psychosis, drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 431(114), 40
  • WINSHIP, G. and HINSHELWOOD, R.D, 2006. Orestes & Democracy. In: COLES, P., ed., Sibling Relationships Karnac Books. 75-96
  • WINSHIP, G., 2005. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 19(3), 233-245
  • WINSHIP, G, 2004. Democracy in Practice in 14 UK psychotheraputic communities Therapeutic Communities. 25(4), 275-290 (In Press.)
  • WINSHIP, G, 2004. Response to commentary by Adriano Verdecchia on: the democratic origins of the term 'Group Analysis' Group Anaylsis. 37(4), 558-559
  • WINSHIP, G., 2003. Group Analysis. 36(1), 37-51
  • WINSHIP, G, 2003. A Habermas Kritik Free Association. 10(2), 223-235
  • WINSHIP, G, 2001. Group Analysis. 34, 245-258
  • WINSHIP, G, 2000. Jury deliberation: an observation research study. Group Analysis.. 33(4), 547-557.
  • WINSHIP, G & HAIGH, R, 2000. Public mental health and the new therapeutic community. Therapeutic Communities. 21(1), 47-53
  • WINSHIP, G, 2000. The Birth of the New Asylum - Reflections on the progress of neighbourhood psychiatry. In: BARKER, P & STEVENSON, C, ed., The Construction of Power and Authority in Psychiatry Butterworth & Heimann.
  • WINSHIP, G. and HARDY, S., 1999. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 6, 307-312
  • WINSHIP, G, 1999. Screen memories and the role of film in the therapeutic milieu. In: WALLER, D & MAHONY, J, ed., Art Therapy & the Treatment of Drug Addiction Routledge.
  • WINSHIP, G, 1999. Lou Andreas-Salome: at the high noon of culture, in the shadows of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis & History. 1(2), 219-236
  • WINSHIP, G, 1999. The Prometheus Syndrome: Addiction, death & the liver in mind Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 13(1), 41-49
  • WINSHIP, G, 1999. Group psychotherapy & the addictions. In: WALLER, D & MAHONY, J, ed., Art Therapy and the Treatment of Addiction Routledge.
  • WINSHIP, G, 1998. Intensive care psychiatric nursing Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. 5, 361-365
  • WINSHIP, G, 1998. Justice as an inherent characteristic of group dynamics Free Associations. 7(1), 64-80
  • MACDONALD, S, BLYTH, F and NEWRITH, C & WINSHIP, G, 1998. Adolescent transitions and the use of hallucinogens British Journal of Psychotherapy. 15(2), 240-248
  • WINSHIP, G & HAIGH, R, 1998. The group matrix in clay Group Analysis. 31(1), 71-81
  • WINSHIP, G & KNOWLES, J, 1997. The transgenerational impact of cultural trauma - linking phenomena in the treatment of third generation survivors of the holocaust British Journal of Psychotherapy. 13(2), 259-266
  • WINSHIP, G, 1997. Developing the role of the nurse psychotherapist in the UK Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. 33(1), 25-31
  • WINSHIP, G, 1997. Collectivism & Individualism: patient empowerment. In: BARKER, P & DAVIDSON, B, ed., Psychiatric Nursing - Ethical Dilemmas Macmillan..
  • WINSHIP, G & HARDY, S, 1997. Approaches to therapeutic groups. In: THOMAS, B and HARDY, S & CUTTING, P, eds., Stuart & Sundeen's Mental Health Nursing Principles & Practices Mosby. 471-478
  • WINSHIP, G, 1997. Psychodynamics & Psychobiology in the UK & USA Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. 3(5), 279-281
  • WINSHIP, G & UNWIN, C, 1997. Psychotherapeutic approaches in substance misuse. In: RASSOOL, H & GUFFAW, M, ed., Addictions Nursing Stanley Thornes. 80-88
  • WINSHIP, G, 1996. Counselling drug users Nursing Times. 91(2), 26-28
  • PINES, M & WINSHIP, G, 1996. Reflections on Bion, Foulkes, Bridger & Main: 40th anniversary of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic & the birth of the therapeutic community Therapeutic Communities. 17(2), 127-132
  • WINSHIP, G & PEACHY, A, 1996. Health education & safer sex British Journal of Nursing. 17, 999-1019
  • WINSHIP, G, 1996. Collectivism & Individualism: democracy in psychiatry Therapeutic Communities. 17(1), 31-45
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. Book Review: The Taming of Solitude by Quinodoz, J M.: Separation anxiety in psychoanalysis Network. 6(1), 9-10
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. Condoms on the ward: Sexual health education in psychiatric settings Therapeutic Communities. 16(3), 163-169
  • WINSHIP, G & PATRICK, J, 1995. Creative therapy & the question of disposal: What happens to artefacts after the session? British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 57(1), 20-22
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. Nursing & psychoanalysis; uneasy alliances? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 9(3), 289-299
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. Patient Empowerment Therapeutic Communities. 161, 113-116
  • WINSHIP, G, HARNIMANN, B and BURLING, S & COURTNEY, J, 1995. Countertransference & the treatment of drug dependent patients Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 2, 195-197
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. When Nietzsche Wept: By Yalom, I D Free Associations. 5(4), 584-588
  • WINSHIP, G, 1995. The unconscious impact of working with acutley disturbed patients: towards an understanding of unconscious bruising Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. 2(2), 227-233
  • WINSHIP, G, 1993. Facing death in the therapeutic community: A community in mourning Therapeutic Communities. 14(3), 179-185
  • WINSHIP, G, 1993. Book review: The Handbook of Art Therapy - Case, T & Dalley, T Bethlem & Maudsley Gazette. 40(1), 44
  • WINSHIP, G, 1991. Group living is the key to addiction recovery Druglink. 4, 19
  • WINSHIP, G, 1990. The crisis within. Nursing Times. 87(7), 20-21

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