Prof Andrew Sims

Career: house surgn Westminster Hosp 1963-64, registrar Manchester Royal Infirmary 1965-68, conslt psychiatrist All Saints' Hosp Birmingham 1971-76, sr lectr and hon conslt psychiatrist Univ of Birmingham 1976-79, prof of psychiatry Univ of Leeds 1979-2000; ed Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 1993-2003, asst ed Br Jl of Psychiatry 1994-2005, ed Developing Mental Health 2002-05; pres RCPsych 1990-93 (dean 1987-90); chm: Confidential Inquiry into Homicides and Suicides of Mentally Ill People 1992-95, Schizophrenia Report of Clinical Standards Advsy Gp 1993-95, Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Gp RCPsych 2003-05; memb GMC 1994-99; patron: Interhealth, John Young Fndn, Leeds Faith in Schs, Assoc for Pastoral Care for Mental Health; MD (Lambeth) 1995; FRCPsych 1979 (Hon FRCPsych 1994), FRCPEd 1993, FRCP 1997; fell Coll of Physicians and Surgns Pakistan 1994, fell Coll of Psychiatrists South Africa 1997, fell Assoc of European Psychiatrists 2002

Books and Publications: Neurosis in Society (1983), Psychiatry CMT (5 edn, 1983), Lecture Notes in Behavioural Science (1984), Symptoms in the Mind (1988), Anxiety in Clinical Practice (1988), Angsttherapie in der Klinischen Praxis (1993), Psychiatry (6 edn, 1993), Speech and Language Disorders in Psychiatry (1995), Symptoms in the Mind (1988, 3 edn 2003), Disorders of Volition (1998), Spirituality and Psychiatry (jt ed, 2009), Is Faith Delusion? (2009), Geloof: waan of werkelijkheid? (2010)