Personality & Impulse Disorders

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College London

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• Co-Chair Personality Disorders Section, World Psychiatric Association
• Founder President, British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders
• Work Group for Revision of Classification of Personality Disorders (ICD-11), World Health Organisation: Chair Feb 2010-Dec 2014
• MRC Advisory Board
• Research Council of Norway

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Tyrer's main interests are in models of delivering community psychiatric services, the classification and treatment of common mental illnesses, particularly anxiety and health anxiety, and the classification and management of personality disorders. He also leads on research into the management of patients with intellectual disability. He is experienced in the management of those with severe mental illness, substance misuse and personality disorder and has developed a new treatment, nidotherapy, to help these people by making environmental, not personal, changes.