Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors

About Theo StickleyThurstine Basset

Thurstine Basset is a social worker who now runs his own independent training and development consultancy. His current clients include the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Education not Discrimination at Rethink. He is the Chair of the Mental Health Training Forum Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Brighton. Together with Theo Stickley he is joint editor of Teaching Mental Health (Wiley 2007) and Learning About Mental Health Practice (Wiley 2008). Theo Stickley is Associate Professor of Mental Health in the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. Previously he trained and worked in both mental health nursing and counselling. Theo has led on a number of educational research projects in collaboration with people who use mental health services. He uses narrative as a research method especially amongst people engaging with arts activities. He leads the East Midlands Arts and Health Research Group; he is also a Director of City Arts Nottingham and leads the Art in Mind programme of work.