Craig
Newnes
Craig Newnes is a Consulting Conversationalist, editor, historian, publisher, musician and author. He has published numerous book chapters and academic articles and is editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. In 2003, he was Chair of the British Psychological Society's Psychotherapy Section. He has been an Honorary Professor at Murdoch University, Australia, and an Honorary Lecturer at several UK universities.
Two years after an almost fatal road accident, he retired as director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire's Community and Mental Health Services Trust, one of the UK's largest psychological therapies departments.
He has edited/sole-authored over a dozen books and is commissioning editor for six volumes in the Critical Psychology Division from PCCS Books. For PCCS he has published the best-selling This is Madness (1999), This is Madness Too (2003), Clinical Psychology: A critical examination (2014) and Children in Society: Politics, policies and interventions (2015). Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry: How Psy governs us all (2016) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He co-edited Teaching Critical Psychology: International perspectives (Routledge, 2018).
His most recent books are A Critical A-Z of Electroshock (2018), Paris: A Novel, Tearagh't, Malaya: A Kind of Memoire, 52 Ways a to Change Your Life, 52 Ways to Survive a Pandemic. And a children's book, The Billy and Bonzo Stories, all from Real Press. Racism and the Psychology Industry (2021) is published by Routledge. Finnledoo, an illustrated children's book, was published by Egalitarian Publishing in 2020.