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Notes on contributors
Richard House is the retiring co-editor of Self & Society, a former senior university lecturer in psychology and education, a former counsellor-psychotherapist, and an education and political campaigner (for Jeremy Corbyn) in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. Richard has been writing papers, articles and press letters, and writing and editing books on these issues since the early 1990s.
Guy Jamieson is a service user and activist in the SOS campaign against mental health resource centre closures in Liverpool.
Rich Moth is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool Hope University and a member of the national steering committee of the Social Work Action Network (SWAN). Before entering academia he worked for over 10 years in mental health services in both statutory and voluntary sector settings.
Debbie Porteous is a counsellor/supervisor in Bristol, and an accredited BACP member. Trained at Strathclyde, she has post-graduate qualifications in Counselling in Primary Care and Counselling Supervision. With voluntary sector, NHS settings and student counselling experience, witnessing the injustice of austerity on welfare and mental health during her work with survivors of sexual abuse inspires her campaigning work.