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Professor Tony Morrison 

Professor of Clinical Psychology

 

Research

My research involves the application of psychological principles to the understanding and treatment of psychotic mental health problems, and attempts to determine how far we can ‘explain the unexplainable’ using normal psychosocial processes. My approach to the understanding and treatment of psychosis involves a strong emphasis on normalising theory, and integrates this with a programme of innovative clinical and experimental research.

My main research interests are the cognitive theory and therapy of psychosis, early intervention and the prevention of psychosis, cognitive factors in bipolar disorder, developmental approaches to understanding psychosis (especially focusing on the relationship between early experience, trauma and psychosis) and the facilitation of user-led research. My programme focuses on these areas and involves collaborations with several different groups, including service users who are employed within my team as user-led researchers.

 

Biography

Dr Morrison is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and is also Associate Driector for Early Intervention for Bolton Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust. He has published a number of articles on cognitive therapy for psychosis and experimental studies of cognitive processes in psychosis, has been involved in a number of treatment trials for cognitive therapy for psychosis and has a special interest in the cognitive theory of and therapy for hearing voices. More recently, he has developed a research interest in people at high-risk of developing psychosis, the links between trauma and psychosis and the facilitation of user-led research into psychosis and mental health services.
 

Selected publications

2006

  • Morrison, AP, French, P, Lewis, SW, Roberts, M, Raja, S, Neil, S, Parker, S, Green, J, Kilcommons, A, Walford, L, Bentall, RP. (2006). Psychological factors in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: comparisons with non-patients and associations with symptoms. Psychol Med, 36( 10), 1395-404. eScholarID:1d13753 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291706007768

2004

  • Morrison AP, French P, Walford L, Lewis SW, Kilcommons A, Green J, Parker S, Bentall RP. (2004). Cognitive therapy for the prevention of psychosis in people at ultra-high risk: randomised controlled trial. Br J Psychiatry, 185, 291-7. eScholarID:1d8871 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.185.4.291

2003

  • Ensum I, Morrison AP. (2003). The effects of focus of attention on attributional bias in patients experiencing auditory hallucinations. Behav Res Ther, 41( 8), 895-907. eScholarID:1d8877 | DOI:10.1016/S0005-7967(02)00102-X
  • Morrison AP, Wells A. (2003). A comparison of metacognitions in patients with hallucinations, delusions, panic disorder, and non-patient controls. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41( 2), 251-6. eScholarID:1d26043 | DOI:10.1016/S0005-7967(02)00095-5

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