Welcome to my Website

I am a retired academic psychologist. I unfortunately retired due to ill health, but I am still trying to fulfill my ambition of writing more books. I can write them, it is just whether they will get published.

Instead of defining my working self as a psychologist I am now free to call myself an I am an author and historian I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society – for some reason I am more proud of this than my psychology qualifications. I think most psychologists secretly want to be something else!

My latest book, Applied Narrative Psychology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. It is the final part of an academic trilogy. The first part was Memory, War and Trauma,(Cambridge, 2010), the second part was Landscapes of Trauma (Routledge, 2019). Together they reflect my research into traumatic stress and narrative over the years.