Prof Glynn Harrison
Professor Glynn Harrison is a Christian psychiatrist and academic. Before retiring from professional life he was Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, UK, where he was also a practising Consultant Psychiatrist. His main areas of academic research were in schizophrenia and associated psychotic illness, health service evaluation and epidemiology. He is recent past President of the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology, a past advisor to WHO and he has served on the Chief Medical Officers ‘Health of the Nation’ Working group. His clinical passion was for early intervention and prevention of psychotic disorder. Left untreated, these can be among the most devastating and potentially long term disorders in the field of psychiatry.
He visits churches, universities, theological colleges, and conferences, speaking about Christian faith in relation to psychology, neuroscience and mental health. He is also interested in culture change and Christian world view. Having been an Anglican lay minister, he continues to preach from time to time, and he and his wife are members of a church in Bristol.
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