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This page contains articles and links to information related to to my work as a senior nurse within psychiatry and also with perpetrators and survivors of sexual abuse. Also some stuff on aliens.

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Dryll y Car is the award winning psychiatric unit that I manage, this is a description of the service that it provides. The unit has a reputation as a centre of excellence and has won several major awards, been featured in TV programmes like 'Horizon', and staff have been invited to travel all over the world to give presentations about our unique approach to helping people with mental health problems.

'Secret Lives' is about my work with perpetrators of sexual abuse, it describes how perpetrators operate, the cycle of offending and how this impacts on the victims of abuse.

Coping by Cutting was published in the Independent, the Nursing Standard and several other national newspapers. It deals with the issues surrounding self harm.

'Exploring Person Centredness' was a piece of research I participated in some years ago, it is a qualitative study of client's experiences of Dryll y Car. It was published in 'Health and Social Care in the Community' 7(6), 475-482.

'SHAVE' was Self Harm, Abuse and the Voice Experience, a conference organised by Ron Coleman of the hearing voices Network. This is a transcript of the speech I gave at the conference. It deals mainly with people's experience of self harm, and the problem that professionals have dealing with it.

I wrote this Research Report a few years ago when I got annoyed about psychiatry pathologising normal behaviour.

This is the transcript of a talk I gave about the possibility of there being intelligent life elswhere in the Universe.

Links to Other Sites

Kali Munro's site offers some very good information on male victims of abuse, and on survivirs of abuse perpetrated by women.

'Monsters with Human Faces' was an article in the Guardian in 1999. As you read this bear in mind that these 'nice' men are almost certainly lying, have probably raped a number of children, and have managed to successfully groom the journalist into printing their distorted thinking in a national newspaper.

Scott Abraham is a male survivor of abuse by his mother, and struggled for years trying to make sense of information for survivors of abuse directed at women, this is a review of literature available for male survivors.

Jim Hopper's page is a useful resource for information about statistics about sexual abuse, sexual abuse of males and recovered memory sydrome

Remembering Dangerously is a good article on the dangers of memories of abuse recovered during therapy.

The methods by which memories are implanted in cases recovered memories of abuse are remarkable similar to those surrounding people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. Alien Abductions Incorporated is a spoof, but sadly not too far from the truth. It's very funny though. For a more informed article try this pone from the Skeptical Enquirer

The Woodsman is an excellent film that follows a man who is trying to re-enter society after 12 years in prison for sex offences. I thought this was a very realistic portrayal of a paedophile, he finds relationships with adults difficult, has a target age for his victims, he picks on children with no other friends and pretends to share an interest, recognises the behaviour of other paedophiles immediately, and denies that he has harmed the children that he molested. The more he is shunned by adult society because he is seen as a monster, the more he is tempted by relationships with children. The film also touches on the thorny issues of how far 'normal' people are sexually attracted to children, and the issue that once children have become victims of abuse they are more open to sexual exploitation by others.