He was Director of the Oxford Practice Skills Programme which established the Oxford Practice Skills Course. This brings together ethics, law and communication skills in a problem-solving approach to medical student education. He is the founder and Co-Editor (with John Sadler) of the first international journal for philosophy and mental health, PPP - Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. He has published widely on philosophical and ethical aspects of mental health, in particular Moral Theory and Medical Practice (1989, paperback 1995, reprinted 1999, Cambridge University Press).

John Z Sadler has built his academic career around the philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of medicine, and bioethics. He is currently a tenured Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Undergraduate Psychiatric Education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Since 1989 he has been a clinical ethics consultant, ethics committee chair, and medical humanities educator at Southwestern. He served as an Advisor to the DSM-IV project completed in 1994.

As a co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), he helped to realize the first volume of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP) in 1994. Co-sponsored by AAPP and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy group, the journal continues to be co-edited by Bill Fulford and Sadler. In 2000 he joined Fulford in co-editing the History and Philosophy section of the international review journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He directs and does empirical research on the medical student education programs in psychiatry at Southwestern. He has enjoyed continuous grant support since 1992 for his work in the philosophy of psychiatry.

Giovanni Stanghellini is Professor of Social Psychopathology at the Post-graduate School of Psychiatry of the University of Florence. He is secretary to the World Psychiatric Association Section of Clinical Psychopathology; Treasurer of the Section for Psychopathology of the Association of European Psychiatrists; Member of the Steering Committee of the International Board for Philosophy and Psychiatry; Secretary of the Italian Society for Psychopatholog