Autor/-in: Stirling Moorey

Dr Stirling Moorey is a consultant medical psychotherapist psychiatrist in CBT at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an honorary senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He was professional Head of Psychotherapy for the Trust until July 2013. He trained in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1980. He became interested in cognitive therapy whilst doing an intercalated BSc in psychology at medical school, and in 1979 he did his student elective with Dr Aaron Beck at the Centre for Cognitive Therapy ? being one of the first British therapists to visit when CBT was in its infancy. He had the good fortune to be trained and supervised by two major contributors to the field of cognitive therapy: David Burns (www.feelinggood.com) the author of Feeling Good and Art Freeman (drartfreeman.com). He has been closely involved with CBT ever since, organising visits to the UK by Dr Beck during the 1980s and 90s and training many psychiatrists and other health professionals in the model.