Question: who is your favourite psychologist?

Abbie Jordan answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 7 Nov 2018 10:15 pm

I don’t think Prof Stephen Morley is what you might call famous but I think he should have been as he is someone I admire. He is famous in the area of pain which is my area of research. He very sadly died last year but did some great work on identity and interruption in chronic pain. So talking about how pain interrupts what we are doing (it’s hard to concentrate when you have pain as it demands your attention) and also how ongoing pain affects how we see ourselves (identity). I am really interested in identity in terms of how young people with ongoing pain think about themselves. I think that Stephen’s work really has much relevance for some many researchers and clinicians in the pain world (he was a clinical psychologist too) as well as other people in other fields of psychology. He actually was my external examiner for my PhD so I was lucky enough to meet him and talk with him. See here for a bit more info about Stephen – https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-30/august-2017/stephen-morley-1950-2017