Dr Stuart Turner

AWARDS:

  • Sarah Haley Memorial Award, for Clinical Excellence, awarded by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
  • The Wolter de Loos Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychotraumatology in Europe, awarded by the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

EDUCATION: 

  • Chesterfield Grammar School, 1963 to 1969.
  • Matriculated 1970, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
  • Graduated, 1973, Cambridge, BA in medical sciences – experimental psychology and pharmacology.
  • Awarded a Clinical Exhibition and the ‘Tancred Studentship in Physic‘.
  • Undergraduate training at the Middlesex Hospital (winning the psychiatry prize).
  • Passed final medical examinations (MB BChir) in Cambridge, 1976.
  • Passed MD dissertation defence, Cambridge 1987, no rewrites required.

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:

  • Foundation year training HP at Harefield Hospital (chest and general medicine); HS at Central Middlesex Hospital (vascular and general surgery).
  • Training in medical specialties (neurology, renal/metabolic, cardiology) at Hull Royal Infirmary. Broad experience in general medicine, intensive care, and practical procedures including peritoneal dialysis and cardiac pacing. Very busy 1 in 2 rota.
  • Passed the MRCP (UK) qualification in general medicine.
  • Subsequent election to Fellowship (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
  • General Psychiatric training at the Middlesex Hospital. Chose to apply here to work with undergraduate tutor, Dr Edward Chesser and Dr Vic Meyer, the pioneer of exposure and response prevention in the treatment of OCD and founding president of BABP (later to become BABCP). I received clinical training in cognitive-behaviour therapy at a centre of excellence, running my first supervised exposure programme in 1979. Subsequent experience in a day hospital, acute psychiatry ward, and a large mental hospital trialling token economy. On-call for Middlesex Hospital A&E department for psychiatry referrals, a busy service covering the West End of London, and general hospital liaison. Received a broad base of supervised clinical training in psychological therapies including (especially) cognitive-behavioural approaches but also psychodynamic and group analytic approaches, working with adults & children, with couples and as co-facilitator of a closed psychotherapy group.
  • Passed the MRCPsych qualification in psychiatry.
  • Subsequent election to the Fellowship (FRCPsych) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
  • Research Fellow (MRC grant), and then Lecturer, at Kings College Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, undertaking research into the biology of schizophrenia leading to the Cambridge University MD degree (in UK, an academic degree equivalent to a PhD). Honorary senior registrar King’s College Hospital and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. As Lecturer, responsible for negotiating and drafting revised undergraduate teaching programme. Higher training in psychiatry, especially in liaison and neuropsychiatry (Dr BK Toone and Professor A Lishman), psychiatry of old age (Dr AM Silverman) and general and liaison psychiatry (Dr HS Greer).
  • Commenced Voluntary work with survivors of torture.

CONSULTANT AND RELATED UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:

  • Senior Clinical Lecturer Middlesex Hospital Medical School (later UCL) 1987. Honorary Consultant and lead, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, St Lukes-Woodside Hospital. Response team for the Kings Cross fire (1987). Chair, Bloomsbury (later, Bloomsbury & Islington) Junior Staff Review Group, a district health authority committee responsible for determining policy with regard to all junior medical staff (1989 to 1991). Member (ex officio), several Bloomsbury DHA medical manpower planning groups & Regional JPAC committee. I held delegated authority over all junior doctor recruitment (all specialties, Middlesex and University College Hospitals) and was able to improve the education and conditions of work of trainees. Formal establishment of the Traumatic Stress Clinic (TSC) in 1991 (jointly directed with Dr James Thompson) as a National Centre for PTSD in the NHS in 1991 when the Department of Health awarded it a national contract – as a direct result of research undertaken jointly with Dr Easton on the returned human shield group from Kuwait and Iraq. Chair, Bloomsbury and Islington Psychiatry Advisory Committee & immediate precursor to Clinical Director, in Mental Health Services (1991 to 1993).
  • First Medical Director, Camden and Islington NHS Community Trust (1993 to 1998) with lead responsibility in the Trust for Education and Research. Consultant psychiatrist 1993 to 2003. Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL. Continued as sole director of the TSC after its move to Charlotte St. As a medical manager and member of the trust board, I was able to improve the care offered to patients and at the same time oversee substantial developments in education and research. Consultant to a new DBT service for people with borderline disorder (usually complex PTSD). Adviser, disaster responding and refugee support. It became commonplace to be asked for advice by local services the morning after one of the many the large-scale disasters in the UK. Later informal adviser to DH. Increasingly engaged in treating and advising on refugee mental health.
  • 2003 Moved into private (independent) practice (Trauma Clinic London). Emeritus Consultant, Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust. Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL. Private treatment facility for adults experiencing emotional difficulties, usually as a result of serious adversity (including stress at work) or trauma (including disaster, accident, and sexual assault). Worked alongside experienced clinical psychologists. continued to have teaching, research and other project roles, able to operate more flexibly in this new environment. Developed my medico-legal practice. At first I prepared reports only in relation to asylum applications. Gradually this practice grew as I prepared expert witness reports in a wider range of domains, including personal injury litigation (claimant, defendant and single joint expert), criminal, and employment cases (including with respect to the Disability Discrimination Act). I gave evidence to the Macpherson Inquiry after the death of Stephen Lawrence. I have prepared reports in international cases, eg the case of Yuri Budanov (the first Russian Military Officer convicted by a Russian Court of war crimes in Chechnya) and in the case of Stanislav Galic (indicted in the ICT-Y of war crimes in relation to the shelling of civilians in Sarajevo). I have undertaken assessments and prepared reports in the course of class actions, for example, instructed by the Department of Health (defendant) in the case of a large Human Growth Hormone case and instructed by the Northern Ireland Police Federation (claimant) in a case brought by serving and former members of the RUC/PSNI. Later I stopped reporting in asylum applications to avoid any risk of conflict with my developing research agenda concerning decision-makers and their assumptions.

EXAMPLES OF PROJECT WORK UNDERTAKEN

  • Adviser to the DH on the mental health needs of Kosovan refugees arriving in the UK in 1999 and on the psychosocial responses to a disaster (2001 to 2002).
  • Civilian Consultant Adviser in traumatic stress disorders to the Director of Defence Psychiatry (2000 to 2003). This included undertaking a review of the PTSD service at Catterick.
  • Chair of an international group (ISTSS and UN) on organised state violence (1999 to 2003). This project led to a publication and set of guidelines for UN agencies across the world.
  • PTSD guideline development group, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2003 to 2005). This was an important guideline for the treatment of PTSD, influential not only in the UK but internationally.
  • DART Europe Advisory Group (2005 to 2008). The DART centre is a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy.
  • Member, London Development Centre (NHS) planning group responding to July 7th (2005) bomb attacks. 
  • My presidential conference for ISTSS in 2008 attracted over 1340 attendees to Chicago (the largest number of ISTSS conference attendees up to that point and for some time thereafter).
  • With the head of the UCL academic department, I visited Namibia to advise on a response to mental health needs in a large refugee camp. Other international work undertaken in the Republic of Georgia, Gaza, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Sri Lanka.
  • Member of panels on behalf of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons inspecting the Healthcare Services in Yarls Wood IRC, a special unit at HMP Long Lartin, HMP Belmarsh, and the CSC units.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

  • My doctoral dissertation concerned a CT brain scan investigation of early schizophrenia. This was undertaken at a time when there had been a small number of studies reporting structural brain abnormalities in people with chronic schizophrenia; it was possible that these results were a consequence of treatment effects, chronic illness or chronic environmental deprivation. This MRC supported study was the first investigation of people recently diagnosed with this condition and helped to confirm that there were differences from controls at this stage of the illness.
  • Following this, my main area of interest has been with traumatised people. This includes a substantial body of work with disaster survivors and (especially) refugees. Dr Jane Herlihy and I established the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law as a body to investigate the scientific basis of assumptions commonly used in asylum determinations. In 2020, the work of this group formally transferred to Royal Holloway University of London under the direction of Professors Amina Memom (psychology) and Jill Marshall (law). Through this centre, we have investigated the assumptions made by decision makers in asylum applications. Technically, these are difficult cases as there is little or no individual documentation (no medical or detention records from country of origin are available). Decision makers often have to make determinations based only on a trauma narrative and some general information about a country of origin. Credibility is usually a central issue – do they accept the evidence of persecution or not? They tend to rely on their own lay assumptions about human behaviour after extreme trauma. A qualitative investigation of judicial decisions has been completed and a programme of scientific investigation (primary and secondary research) of relevant assumptions continues. As a result of our activities, I am delighted to see other groups (especially in Finland and Australia) replicating our findings and also developing this area of work. We have a long way to go before we can see good scientific evidence routinely accepted in asylum applications, but it is a good start.

WORK WITH CHARITABLE TRUSTS INVOLVED WITH REFUGEES

  • Trustee, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (1988 to 1991). I was the first psychiatrist to provide regular services in this organisation and became a managing trustee. (From 1991, I was able to provide this treatment in the NHS in the Traumatic Stress Clinic.)
  • Trustee, Redress Trust (1997 to 2005). This organisation works for reparation for torture survivors.
  • Chair of Trustees, Refugee Therapy Centre (2002 to 2009). The Refugee Therapy Centre offered a range of services for refugees and asylum seekers, especially young people and families. It also provided an introductory course in counselling.
  • Co-Founder and First Chair of Trustees, Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law. In 2007, I set up this charity jointly with Dr Jane Herlihy (who became its first director) and initially funded its work through my private clinic.

ROLES IN THE MAJOR PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA SOCIETIES

  • Chair, European Trauma Foundation (1991 to 1993), the precursor to the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). In this role, I oversaw the development of ESTSS and led onnegotiating a framework arrangement with ISTSS, the International Society.
  • President, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (1995 to 1997), Vice-President (1993 to 1995), Board Director, (1993 to 2001). The European Society provides a regular conference and trainingevents. It is now a large federation of local European groups. (I am member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and was a keynote speaker at its inaugural meeting.
  • Chair, UK Trauma Group (1996 to 2003) for leading UK academic groups and specialist traumatic stress services (January 1996 to 2003). I established this group, which ran as a managed clinicalnetwork, providing a forum for heads of different services and research groups to meet.
  • President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (2007/08). Board Director (2000 to 2009), Secretary (2001 to 2002), Treasurer (2002 to 2005), Vice-President (2005 to 2006), President-elect (2006 to 2007). UN representative.

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT (NHS)

  • Member, Regional Responsive Research Committee (grant-giving body, 1994 to 1995). Member, Regional Organisation and Management R&D Working Group (1995).
  • Member, Middlesex Hospital Ethics Committee (1988 to 1991). Member, Camden & Islington Community Local Research Ethics Committee (1999 to 2000).
  • Director of Research & Development, North Central London Community Research Consortium (now NoCLoR), comprising the Camden and Islington Community NHS Trust, Camden & Islington Mental Health NHS Trust and the NoCTeN Primary Care Network (1997 to 2002). Chair, UCL Clinical Research Network (1998 to 2000). I wrote the original Culyer proposal for the Community Trust and this led to a large increase in research funding placing the Trust well ahead of other Community providers. In preparing the proposal, I was also able to negotiate a partnership with the primary care network in North Central London. The consortium has now expanded to include all mental health, community services and primary care services in North Central London.

EDUCATION ROLES

  • Vice-Dean, Royal Free & University College Medical School (1996 to1998). Member, Regional SIFTR review group (1994 to 1995). Member, N London SIFT group (1996 to 1998). Co-Chair, Community-based Education Group and other contributions to curriculum review (1996 to 1998). Undergraduate teacher.
  • Recognised Teacher of the University of London (1986 to 2017) and examiner for several PhD and MD dissertations. 
  • Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists’ MCQ working party (1987 to 1997).
  • Member, North London Educational Consortium (1996 to1998). Chair, Regional Commissioning Subgroup for Clinical Psychology on behalf of the North Thames Regional Consortia (1997 – 1998), achieving a real growth in clinical psychology training in London. Chair, Mental Health Sub Group, North London Workforce Development Confederation (1999 to 2003).
  • Course Organiser, UCL MRCPsych Course (1988 – 1993). With a colleague, I established and ran this as a popular course for psychiatric trainees in preparation for it becoming an MSc course.
  • Acting Postgraduate Clinical Tutor pending a substantive appointment (1993 to 1994). This was a new post I helped to establish with the Deanery, recognising its relationship with the new Community Trust.
  • I have been an invited teacher on CPD training programmes for the Judiciary.
  • I have served as Consultant to the WHO on training missions to Tbilisi (Georgia) in 1996 and Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) in 1997. I have undertaken other teaching and training overseas.
  • Foundation Faculty of the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) course for the Royal College of Surgeons (representing the Royal College of Psychiatrists). This became one of the standard postgraduate courses for trainees in surgery and anaesthetics.

TRAUMA EXPERIENCE:

  • In the mid 1980s, Volunteer and then Trustee of what was then called the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (now Freedom from Torture).
  • One evening, whilst seeing patients in the Medical Foundation, I became aware of the emergency services’ sirens on the Euston Road, and learned of the 1987 fire at Kings Cross Station. With James Thompson and others, played a lead role in establishing the NHS response to this disaster and was often consulted in the immediate aftermath of other similar incidents across the United Kingdom.
  • As a direct result of research into the emotional condition of the British “human shield” civilians returned from Kuwait and Iraq, undertaken with Dr Jeff Easton, the UK Department of Health was persuaded to support the development of specialist trauma services (see Sir Edward Heath’s Autobiography).
  • Co-directed, with Dr James Thompson, one of the two nationally funded NHS centres for treating trauma survivors, at the Middlesex Hospital.
  • Particular experience in working with people with complex problems. As well as establishing NHS services for survivors of torture, involved in establishing a DBT service for people with borderline disorders, and asked to help many survivors of sexual assault and rape, those who choose to see a male therapist.
  • One of the four clinicians (with Roderick Orner, Atle Dyregrov, and Wolter de Loos) who established the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) in 1993, having been Chair of the European Trauma Foundation, the precursor organisation. Second President of ESTSS. 
  • Director of the NHS Traumatic Stress Clinic, after its move to Charlotte Street, Incorporating the child trauma service established by Dr Dora Black.
  • Established and chaired the UK Trauma Group, a clinical network of heads of service and researchers in the UK, for 8 years.
  • Elected to the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and served as Secretary, Treasurer and Vice-President. Then elected by the members as President of ISTSS, only Briton so far to be so elected.

VOLUNTEER TRUSTEESHIPS:

  • Former Trustee of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
  • Former Trustee of Redress, an organisation working for reparation for survivors of torture. Redress was one of the NGOs involved in the Pinochet extradition trial jointly representing the victims of torture in Chile. It also played a role in defining terms for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
  • Former Chair of Trustees of the Refugee Therapy Centre, a London-based service specialising in offering same language counselling for young refugees and asylum seekers.
  • With Dr Jane Herlihy, co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law and served as its first Chair of Trustees.

EDITORIAL WORK

  • Associate Editor, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2010 to 2015
  • Editor, Special Section, Journal of Traumatic Stress (2009)
  • Advisory Board for the Journal of Traumatic Stress (1993 to 2000; 2001 to 2007), and the journal Torture (for several years)

PUBLICATIONS

Journals

  1. Jacobson RR, Turner SW, Baldy RE and Lishman WA. (1985). Densitometric Analysis of Scans: Important Sources of Artefact. Psychological Medicine. 15, 879-889.
  2. Turner SW, Toone BK and Brett-Jones JR. (1986). Computerized Tomographic Scan Changes in Early Schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine. 16, 219-225. 
  3. Turner SW. (1986). A male anorectic presenting with symptomatic hypoglycaemia. Clinical Notes On-Line. 1, 112.
  4. Baldy RE, Brindley GS, Ewusi-Mensah I, Jacobson RR, Reveley MA, Turner SW and Lishman WA. (1986). A Fully Automated Computer-Assisted Method of CT Scan Analysis. Neuroradiology. 28, 109-117. 
  5. Coleman R and Turner SW (1988) Do psychiatric registrars take a proper drinking history? British Medical Journal. 296, 931. (letter presenting original data). 
  6. Turner SW and Toone BK (1988) The VBR in schizophrenia research: a methodological problem. Schizophrenia Research. 1, 163-164. 
  7. Turner SW, Daniels L and Greer HS. (1989) Wernicke’s encephalopathy in an 18-year-old woman. British Journal of Psychiatry. 154, 261-262. 
  8. Turner SW (1989) Working with survivors: the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Psychiatric Bulletin. 13, 173-176. 
  9. Turner SW, Thompson J and Rosser R. (1989). The Kings Cross Fire: planning a “phase two” psychosocial response. Disaster Management. 2, 31-37. 
  10. Turner SW, Landau T, Hinshelwood J and Bamber H. (1989) Torture of Turkish Kurds. (letter presenting original data). Lancet, i, 1319 and subsequent correspondence. 
  11. Turner SW and Bamber H (1989) The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. (In) Report on the International Workshop on Training of Practitioners working with Refugees. Oxford: Refugee Studies Programme.
  12. Turner SW and Nateghi A (1989) Surviving torture in the 1980s. Holistic Health, 25, 8-9.
  13. Fisher NR, Turner SW and Pugh CR. (1990) Homeless and Mentally Ill. The Lancet. (letter presenting original data). 335, (April 14). 
  14. Harvey I, Williams M, Toone BK, Lewis SW, Turner SW and McGuffin P. (1990) The ventricular brain ratio (VBR) in functional psychoses: the relationship of lateral ventricular and total intracranial area. Psychological Medicine. 20, 55-62. 
  15. Turner SW and Van Velsen C (1990) Victims of Torture. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 44(5), 345-346.
  16. Turner SW and Gorst-Unsworth C. (1990) Psychological sequelae of torture – a descriptive model. British Journal of Psychiatry. 157, 475-480. 
  17. Easton J and Turner SW. (1991) Detention of British Citizens as Hostages in the Gulf – Health, Psychological and Family Consequences. British Medical Journal. 303, 1231-1234.
  18. Turner SW (1991). Health professionals and organised violence. Invited Article in British Journal of Psychiatry (Supplement) Review of Books. 2, 7-9.
  19. Turner SW (1991). Post-traumatic stress disorder. Hospital Update. 17, 644-649 
  20. Fisher NR, Turner SW and Pugh R (1991) Working for patients: will it work in practice? The Psychiatric Bulletin. 15, 73-75.
  21. O’Sullivan G, Harvey I, Bass C, Sheehy M, Toone B and Turner S. (1992) Psychophysiological investigations of patients with unilateral symptoms in the hyperventilation syndrome. British Journal of Psychiatry. 160, 664-667.
  22. Ramsay, R, Gorst-Unsworth,C and Turner, SW. (1993). Psychiatric Morbidity in Survivors of State Organised Violence including Torture: A Retrospective Series. British Journal of Psychiatry. 162, 55-59.
  23. Gorst-Unsworth C, Van Velsen C. and Turner SW. (1993) Prospective study of Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence – Examining the Existential Dilemma. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 181, 263-264.
  24. Turner SW and Haskins C. (1993) London Capitation Weighting: social deprivation, homelessness and mental health. (Keynote data paper). Psychiatric Bulletin. 17, 641-646.
  25. Summerfield D, Jones L, Gorst-Unsworth C, Hobbs M, Turner S, Harris-Hendricks J and Black D (1993) Psychiatrists condemn Serb leader. British Medical Journal (letter). 307, 329.
  26. Turner SW (1993). The limitations of the anxiety concept in work with survivors of repressive violence. Torture. Supplementum 1, 19-21.
  27. Ramsay, R and Turner SW. (1993) Refugees’ health needs: GP perspectives. British Journal of General Practice. 43, 480-1. (letter presenting original data).
  28. Turner S, Lipsedge M. Volunteers to help Bosnian refugees. British Journal of Psychiatry. 1994;165(1):121-121. doi:10.1192/bjp.165.1.121
  29. Fisher, N, Turner, SW, Pugh, R and Taylor, C. (1994) Estimating the numbers of homeless and homeless mentally ill people in North-east Westminster by using capture-recapture analysis. British Medical Journal. 308, 27-30.
  30. McIvor, R., and Turner, S.W. (1995) Assessment and treatment approaches for survivors of torture. British Journal of Psychiatry. 166, 705-711.
  31. Turner SW, Thompson J, Rosser RM. (1995) The Kings Cross Fire: Psychological Reactions. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 8, 419-427.
  32. Thompson, J, Charlton, P.F.C., Kerry, R., Lee, D. and Turner, S.W. (1995) An open trial of exposure therapy based on deconditioning for post-traumatic stress disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 34, 407-416.
  33. McIvor R.J., Turner S.W. (1995) Drug Treatment in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 53, 501-506.
  34. Katz RJ, Lott MH, Arbus P, Crocq L, Herlobsen P, Lingjaerde O, Lopez G, Loughrey GC, MacFarlane DJ, McIvor R, Mehlum L, Nugent D, Turner SW, Weisaeth L, Yule W. (1995) Pharmacotherapy of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with a Novel Psychotropic Brofaromine in PTSD. Anxiety. 1, 169-174.
  35. Peuskens, J (1995), on behalf of the Risperidone Study Group (of which I was a member). Risperidone in the treatment of patients with chronic schizophrenia: a multi-national, multi-centre, double-blind, parallel-group study versus Haloperidol. British Journal of Psychiatry. 166, 712-726.
  36. Smidt L.A., Andrews S., Turner S.W. (1995) Bringing Clinicians into Management. British Journal of Health Care Management. Vol. 1, No. 1, 24-26.
  37. Turner SW (1995) Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of the Medical Defence Union. Vol 11, No. 2, 32-33.
  38. Turner SW, Smidt L (1995) The Role of the Medical Director. British Journal of Healthcare Management. Vol. 1, No. 3, 144-146.
  39. Van Velsen, C., Gorst-Unsworth, C. and Turner SW. (1996) Working with Survivors of Torture – Demography and Diagnosis. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 9, 181-193.
  40. Thompson, J, Turner, SW, Rosser RM. (1997) A multiple regression analysis of screening questionnaires in post traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychiatry.
  41. Turner SW (1997) Treatment issues in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (roundtable conference contribution). Behavioural Cognitive Bulletin. Vol 1, No 5, 7-11.
  42. Turner, S.W. (1999) The Place of Pharmacotherapy in PTSD. The Lancet. 354, 1404-1405.
  43. Turner SW (1999) Patients who experience traumatic stress. The Practitioner. Vol 243, no 1601, 608-612.
  44. Turner, S.W. (2000) Psychiatric help for Survivors of Torture. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 6, 295-303.
  45. Scragg. P., Grey, N., Lee, D., Young, K. and Turner, S.W. (2001) A Brief Report on the Penn Inventory for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 14, 605-611.
  46. Lee, D.A., Scragg, P. and Turner, S.W. (2001) The role of shame and guilt in traumatic events: a clinical model of shame-based and guilt-based PTSD. British Journal of Medical Psychology. 74, 451-466.
  47. Herlihy, J., Scragg, P. and Turner, S.W. (2002) Discrepancies in Autobiographical Memories. British Medical Journal.
  48. Brewin, C.R., Rose, S., Andrews, B., Green, J., Tata, P., McEvedy, C., Turner, S.W. and Foa E. (2002). A Brief Screening Instrument for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry. 181, 158-162.
  49. Turner, S.W., Bowie, C., Dunn, G., Shapo, L. and Yule, W. (2003) Mental Health of Kosovan Albanian Refugees in the UK. British Journal of Psychiatry.
  50. Turner SW. Authors’ reply [to correspondence, with fresh analyses of qualitative responses]. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2003;183(5):460. doi:10.1192/S0007125000028300)
  51. Schnurr, P.P., Kaloupek, D.G., Turner, S.W., Bloom, S. and Kaltman, S. (2004) Another Grand Challenge: Mental Health (Letter). Science 303, 168-169.
  52. Turner, S.W. (2004) Emotional Reactions to Torture and Organized State Violence. PTSD Research Quarterly. Spring 2004.
  53. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2005). Post-traumatic stress disorder: The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care (Clinical Guideline 26). Leicester (UK): Gaskell; 2005. [member of guideline development group]
  54. Turner, S.W. and ISTSS Executive (2005) ISTSS makes official statement on torture in the modern world. Traumatic Stress Points. Summer 2005.
  55. Herlihy, J. and Turner, S. (2006) Should discrepant accounts given by asylum seekers be taken as proof of deceit? Torture. 16, 81-92.
  56. .Herlihy, J. & Turner, S. (2006). Re. Inconsistency in reporting potentially traumatic events. British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP Online) Available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-ofpsychiatry/article/inconsistency-in-reporting-potentially-traumaticevents/F262D73F6E71566BD617FE7A8B838956#comments [although only first authors are cited]
  57. Bisson, J.I, Ehlers, A., Matthews, R., Pilling, S., Richards, D., Turner, S. (2007) Psychological treatments for chronic post-traumatic stress disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;190:97-104.
  58. Herlihy J. and Turner, S. (2007) Editorial – Asylum claims: are we sharing our knowledge. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191, 3-4.
  59. Turner S. W. (2007) Challenges in the Treatment of PTSD. Therapy Today. 18, 15-17
  60. Herlihy, J. and Turner, S.W. (2007). Memory and Seeking Asylum. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. 9(3): 267 – 276
  61. Moradi, A., Herlihy, J., Yasseri, G., Shahraray, M., Turner, S. and Dalgliesh, T. (2008). Specificity of episodic and semantic aspects of autobiographical memory in relation to symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Acta Psychologica. 127(3): 645-53
  62. Turner, S.W. and Herlihy, J. (2009). Working with refugees and asylum seekers. Psychiatry. 8 (8): 322-324
  63. Herlihy, J and Turner, S.W. (2009). The Psychology of Seeking Protection. International Journal of Refugee Law. 21(2):171-192
  64. Turner, S.W., Herlihy, J. and Schnyder, U. (2009) Selected Highlights of the ISTSS 2008 Annual Meeting (Editorial as Guest Editors of a Special Section). Journal of Traumatic Stress. 22(5): 349-350 
  65. Ehlers, A., Bisson, J., Clark, D.M., Creamer, M., Pilling, S., Richards, D., Schnurr, P.P., Turner, S. and Yule, W. (2010) Do all psychological treatments really work the same in posttraumatic stress disorder? Clinical Psychological Review 30(2):269-76 (2010) 
  66. Herlihy, J., Gleeson, K. and Turner, S. (2010) What Assumptions about Human Behaviour Underlie Asylum Judgments? Int J Refugee Law (2010) 22(3): 351-366 
  67. Herlihy, J., Jobson, L. and Turner, S. (2012). Just Tell Us What Happened to You: Autobiographical Memory and Seeking Asylum. Applied Cognitive Psychology 26 661–676
  68. Herlihy, J. and Turner, S. (2013). What do we know so far about emotion and refugee law? Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 64(1) 47–62
  69. Turner, S. (2013). Psychotraumatology in Europe: a personal history. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 4, Article 21305. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.21305
  70. Herlihy, J. and Turner, S. (2015) Untested assumptions: psychological research and credibility assessment in legal decision-making. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/ejpt.v6.27380
  71. Turner, S.W. (2015) Refugee Blues: a UK and European Perspective. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. (Vol 6).
  72. Turner, S. (2022) 30 years on: A brave new world or an unfolding disaster? Torture Journal: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture. Vol. 32 No. 1-2 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.131492
  73. Herlihy, J., Evans Cameron, H., & Turner, S. (2024). Psychological research evidence in refugee status determination. Journal of Refugee Studies, 37(4), 938-953.

Chapters

  1. Turner SW (1992) Therapeutic Approaches with Survivors of Torture. In Intercultural Therapy (ed Kareem J and Littlewood R) Blackwell Scientific Publications: Oxford, pp 163-174.
  2. Turner SW (1992) The contribution of clinical psychiatry. In A Textbook of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. (ed Brooking JI, Ritter SAH and Thomas BL) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, pp 197-211. 
  3. Turner SW (1992) Surviving sexual assault and sexual torture. In Male victims of sexual assault. (ed Mezey GC and King MB) Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp75-86. 
  4. Turner SW and Gorst-Unsworth C. (1993) Psychological sequelae of torture. In The International Handbook of Traumatic Stress. (ed Wilson and Raphael). New York: Plenum. pp703-714.
  5. Turner SW and Hough A. (1993) Hyperventilation as a reaction to torture. In The International Handbook of Traumatic Stress. (ed Wilson and Raphael). New York: Plenum. pp 725-732.
  6. Turner SW, Thompson J and Rosser R. (1993) The London Kings Cross fire: a disaster in a railway facility. In The International Handbook of Traumatic Stress. (ed Wilson and Raphael). New York: Plenum. pp 451-460.
  7. Turner SW and Fisher N. (1993) Psychiatry and the Purchaser-Provider Divide. in Tilley (ed) Managing the internal Market. Paul Chapman Publishing: London. pp 251-260.
  8. Turner SW (1995). Torture, Refuge and Trust. Mistrusting Refugees. (ed. EV Daniel and JC Knudsen). California: California. pp 56-72.
  9. Turner S.W. (1996) Common Sense and Novel treatments. for McFarlane, Van Der Kolk and Weisaeth (eds).
  10. McIvor, R., and Turner, S.W. (1997) Biological Models. for Black, Newman, Mezey, Harris Hendricks (eds). PTSD a developmental approach.
  11. Lee, D. and Turner, S.W. (1997) Cognitive-Behavioural Models. for Black, Newman, Mezey, Harris Hendricks (eds). PTSD a developmental approach.
  12. Turner S.W. and McIvor, R. (1997) Torture. for Black, Newman, Mezey, Harris Hendricks (eds). PTSD a developmental approach.
  13. Turner SW. (1998) Stress and Trauma. for Tantam D (ed) Clinical Topics in Psychotherapy. Gaskell: London.
  14. Turner SW (Second Edition) Surviving sexual assault and sexual torture. In Male victims of sexual assault. (ed Mezey GC and King MB) Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp75-86. 
  15. Turner, S.W., Silove, D. and Yuksel, S. (2003) Aiding Survivors of Mass Violence and Torture In Trauma Interventions in War and Peace (eds Green, Friedman, de Jong, Solomon, Keane, Fairbank, Donelan and Frey-Wouters, a project led by ISTSS and UN). Kluwer: New York.
  16. Herlihy, J., Ferstman, C. and Turner, S.W. (2004) Legal issues in work with Asylum Seekers. In Broken Spirits (ed Wilson, J. and Drozdek, B.) Brunner-Routledge: New York.
  17. Turner S.W. (2007) Traumatic Memory. In Resilience, Suffering and Creativity : The Work of the Refugee Therapy Centre (ed Alayarian, A) Karnac: London
  18. Gyulai, G., Kagan M., Herlihy, J., Turner, S., Hardi, L., and Udvarhelyi, E.T. (2013) Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures: a Multidisciplinary Training Manual. A publication of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and supported by the EU Credo Initiative. Available in English at https://helsinki.hu/wp-content/uploads/Credibility-Assessment-in-Asylum-Procedures-CREDO-manual.pdf (also available in other languages)
  19. Herlihy, J and Turner S (2019) Legal and Ethical Considerations Related to the Asylum Process. in Mental Health of Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations (ed Morina and Nickerson) 305-324

Books and Dissertations

  1. Turner SW (1987). An Investigation of Early Poor Prognosis Schizophrenia using Computerised Tomography. Dissertation for MD Thesis: Cambridge University. 
  2. Turner S.W. and Lee D (1998). Measures in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: a Practitioners Guide. Monograph. NFER-Nelson.

CONFERENCES

I have not listed conference presentations or scientific committees (there would be too many) but a noteworthy example was as invited keynote lecturer for the first Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma Recovery in Resettlement Conference (2017) in Sydney.