We have a wide range of collaborators in the UK and abroad.
Directors
The directors of CUSP are Tennyson Lee and Kam Bhui.
Tennyson Lee is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, having initially trained in Public Health in South Africa where he led the Mental Health Unit of the Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the clinical lead at DeanCross Personality Disorder Service (RCPsych team of the year in 2019) in the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
He serves on the International Society of Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) certification board and is chair of TFP-UK. He is leading a TFP training project which has held courses in China, South Africa, Italy, UK, India and Malaysia. He is an accredited Mentalization-Based therapist, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is on the Clinical Register of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
Kamaldeep Bhui CBE is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at East London NHS FT and Oxford Health NHS FT. He leads the CHIMES Collaborative at the University of Oxford, integrating creative arts, social sciences, psychiatric, and lived experience perspectives in mental health care and research. He is currently investigating the role of adverse childhood experiences in mental health trajectories, experience-based methods to co-design interventions to reduce the use of the Mental Health Act, and the complex systems and syndemic drivers of multiple morbidities in psychoses.
He is a Trustee at the Centre for Mental Health and a clinical academic advisor to UKHSA. He is the former Public Health Lead and Chair of the Publications Management Board at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Bhui studied Pharmacology (BSc) at UCL and Medicine (MBBS) at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas’ (now King's College), qualifying in 1988. He holds postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry, mental health studies, epidemiology, and psychotherapy.
He completed clinical training in London, secured a first Consultant appointment in 1999, followed in 2000 and 2003 by Consultant/Senior Lecturer and Consultant/Professorial posts in East London Foundation Trust and Queen Mary University of London. He trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and worked in medical psychotherapy as well as adult psychiatry in the NHS. He has a long-standing interest in preventing health ethnic inequalities in the experience and outcome of mental illnesses, improving health services, public health interventions, and appropriate health policy.
Research Associates
The research associates on location at CUSP are Grace Wood and Jessica Atkinson
Grace Wood. Previous roles include: KUF Development Lead and trainer, RCPsych Patient Representative Medical Psychotherapy Executive Committee, Developer/Presenter: London Community Transformation CEN/PD GP training package.
Publication:
- Roughley, M., Maguire, A., Wood, G., & Lee, T. (2021). Referral of patients with emotionally unstable personality disorder for specialist psychological therapy: why, when and how? BJPsych Bulletin, 45(1):52-58
Jessica Atkinson is a LISS-DTP PhD student and researcher; she also holds an HEA Associate Fellowship. Her PHD focuses on how individuals identify with their mental health diagnosis, specifically CPTSD and BPD and how CPTSD fits within the remit of personality disorder services.
She works on a variety of ongoing research tasks within CUSP including the development of the website and thematic analyses.
Publications:
- Atkinson, J.R., Kristinsdottir, K.H., Lee, T., & Freestone, M.C. (2024). Comparing the Symptom Presentation Similarities and Differences of Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder; a Systematic Review. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(4), 241–253.
- Atkinson, J.R. & Freestone, M.C (online). Research Needs of Relational Environments. The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities.