CURRICULUM VITAE
FULL NAME:
Dr Norman Duncan Macaskill
DATE OF BIRTH:
29th July 1948
ADDRESS:
Dalbeg House
60 Stumperlowe Crescent Road
Sheffield
S10 3PR
TELEPHONE:
MOBILE:
0114 2302755
07941939097
CURRENT POSTS:
Full time private medico / legal practice
(from 1st August 2003)
PREVIOUS POSTS:
1.
Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy
Department of Psychiatry
University of Leeds
And
Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist
Leeds Community Mental Health Trust
1996-2003
2.
Medical Director
Leeds Post Traumatic Stress Service 19962003
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bmed. Biol Immunology (Hons)
University of Aberdeen – 1970
MB ChB University of Aberdeen – 1973
MRCPsych – 1978
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy
University of Aberdeen – 1978
Emotive
Assoc Fellow, Institute for RationalTherapy, New York – 1991
Successful
completion
of
AUTP
Behaviour
Therapy Training, Maudsley Hospital,
London – 1985
AWARDS:
TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRY:
‘C’ Merit award 1991
Aberdeen 1973 – 1981
Senior
House Adult Psychiatry, Kingseat Hospital, Aberdeen
Officer
(Dr G Faulkner)
1973 – 1974
Psychiatry of the Elderly (Dr D Alexander)
Registrar
1974 – 1977
Adult Psychiatry, Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
(Dr P McCance)
Rehabilitation Psychiatry (Dr G Faulkner)
Psychotherapy, Ross Clinic Day Hospital
(Dr K Morrice)
Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Service
(Dr R Drummond)
Child Psychiatry, Department of Child Psychiatry
(Dr D Cowie)
Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kingseat Hospital
(Dr D Le Poidevin)
Senior Registrar
1978 – 1981
Psychotherapy, Ross Clinic Day Hospital
(Dr K Morrice)
Adult Psychiatry, Ross Clinic
(Dr J Henderson)
Forensic Psychiatry, Assessments at Top Security
Prison, Peterhead and responsibility for Secure
Treatment Unit, Cornhill Hospital
PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING
1977 – 1979
Diploma in Psychotherapy, Aberdeen University
Supervisors: Prof M Miller, Dr J K W Morrice, Dr D Le
Poidevin, Dr W Brough and Prof D Alexander
1978 – 1980
Attachment to a Therapeutic Community, Aberdeen
(Dr J K W Morrice)
1979 – 1981
Training Analysis – Dr W Brough
1973 – 1981
Weekly
Supervision
Psychotherapy
in
Psychodynamic
and
1981
Appointed as Consultant Psychiatrist, Whiteley Wood
Clinic, Sheffield
1985
Successful completion of AUTP Behaviour Therapy
Training, Maudsley Hospital, London
1985 – 1986
Cognitive Behaviour
Cognitive Therapy
1985 – 1989
Rational – Emotive Therapy Associate Fellowship
Training Supervisors: Dr A Ellis, Prof A T Beck, Prof W
Dryden
1997 (April – May)
Visiting Therapist with Prof A T Beck, Centre for
Cognitive Therapy, Philadelphia.
Supervisors: Prof A T Beck, Dr J Beck.
Training Workshop
–
Beck’s
PREVIOUS POSTS
1981 – 1984
Consultant Psychiatrist, Whiteley Wood Clinic, Sheffield
1984 – 1986
Consultant with responsibility for Rehabilitation Services,
Sheffield (with Dr A McNeil) this was an additional
responsibility to meet service needs
1984 – 1993
Consultant with a special interest in Psychotherapy,
Whiteley Wood Clinic, Sheffield
1993 – 1996
Consultant Psychotherapist, Nottingham Psychotherapy
Service (half time)
Consultant Psychotherapist, Sheffield (half time)
1996 - 2003
Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy,
Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Department
of
Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist, Leeds Community
Mental Health Trust
CURRENT POST
August 2003
Full time medico / legal private practice
ADDITIONAL
(Past)
1982 – 1987
ADMINISTRATIVE
AND
SERVICE
RESPONSIBILITIES
Psychiatric Postgraduate Clinical Tutor, Sheffield.
(This responsibility was assumed after an unsatisfactory
College Approval Panel visit resulting in a threat of
withdrawal of approval. During my tenure the training
was significantly improved resulting in full approval by
the college for the training scheme).
1987 – 1990
Chairman, Division of Psychiatry, Sheffield
1988 – 1990
Consultant Director of the Inpatient Behaviour Therapy
Unit, Sheffield
1988 – 1995
Vice-Chair, Trent Regional Advisory Committee on
Mental Illness
1986 – 1989
Consultant Advisor to ENB 650 Behaviour Therapy
Course and ENB 953 Advances in Psychiatric Nursing
Course, Sheffield
1984 – 1993
Director, Cognitive Therapy Training Course, Sheffield
1989 – 1993
Liaison Psychiatry Service to Rheumatology Department,
Sheffield
1993 – 1995
Trent Regional Psychotherapy Audit Committee Member
1993 – 1995
Director, Introductory and Advanced Courses in
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, University of Nottingham
1993
Committee Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists,
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Advisory Group
1996
Member of National Executive Committee Universities’
Psychotherapy Association (elected nationally by peers)
1998
Expert Consensus Panel Member for the Production of
National Guidelines for Psychological Therapies, Centre
for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, The British
Psychological Society, UCL, London. Nominee of The
Royal College of Psychiatrists
1998
Member of Executive Committee, Psychotherapy Faculty
of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (co-opted)
Executive Member – Research Committee United
Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
1999
EXTERNAL EXAMINING AND SUPERVISION RESPONSIBILITIES
1984 – 1992
Supervisor and Examiner, Post-graduate Diploma in
Psychotherapy, Sheffield
1988 – 1993
MRCPsych Part 1 Examiner
1996 - 2003
Research Supervisor,
University of Leeds
1996 - 2003
Director and Supervisor, Cognitive Therapy for
Depression Training Course, Leeds.
(This is a
continuation of the course started in Sheffield in 1984,
making it one of the longest established training courses
in cognitive therapy in the UK).
Masters
in
Psychotherapy,
1996 - 2003
Trainer and Supervisor for SPRs in Leeds for Cognitive
Psychotherapy
1996 - 2003
Supervisor in Cognitive Therapy
Psychotherapist, Nottingham
for
Consultant
1997 - 2003
Clinical training and supervision in Cognitive Therapy for
Research Therapists at Psychological Therapies
Research Centre, Leeds
These activities were in addition to the normal teaching responsibilities
associated with my previous post.
PUBLICATIONS
1.
Macaskill, N D (1980)
The Narcissistic Core as a Focus in the Group Therapy of the
Borderline Patient.
British Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol 53, pp 137-44
2.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1981)
The Use of the Term ‘Borderline Patient’ by Scottish Psychiatrists:
A Preliminary Survey.
British Journal of Psychiatry., Vol 139, pp 397-9
3.
Macaskill, N D (1982)
The Theory of Transitional Phenomena and its Application to the
Psychotherapy of the Borderline Patient.
British Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol 55, pp 349-60
4.
Macaskill, N D (1982)
Therapeutic Factors in Group Psychotherapy with Borderline
Patients.
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol 32, pp 61-73
5.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1983)
Preparing Patients for Psychotherapy.
British Journal of Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Vol 2, pp 80-3
6.
Macaskill, N D (1985)
Homework Assignments in Brief Psychotherapy.
British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 2, pp 134-41
7.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1985)
The Use of the Term ‘Borderline Patient’ by Scottish Psychiatrists:
A Conceptual Analysis.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol 31, pp 47-53
8.
Macaskill, N D (1986)
The Sheffield Cognitive Psychotherapy Training Course.
Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Vol 10, pp 78-9
9.
Macaskill, N D (1986)
Cognitive Therapy.
Nursing Mirror (October), p 42-3
10.
Macaskill, N D (1987)
Delusional Parasitosis:
Successful Non-Pharmacological
Treatment of a Folie-a-Deux.
British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 150, pp 261-3
11.
Macaskill, N D (1988)
Personal Therapy in the Training of the Psychotherapist:
Effective?
British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 4, pp 219-26
Is it
12.
Macaskill, N D (1989)
Cognitive Therapy in Resistant Depression: Does it have a Role?
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 5, pp 58
13.
Macaskill, N D (1989)
Rational Emotive Therapy of Depression in Terminally Ill Patient.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 6, pp 58
14.
Macaskill, N D (1990)
Self-Help Books for Depression.
Psychiatric Bulletin, Vol 14, pp 2608
15.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1990)
Is Group CBT a Viable Alternative to Individual CBT in the
Treatment of Depression?
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 7, pp 59
16.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1990)
Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Predictors of Outcome.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 8, pp 513
17.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1991)
Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Does it Prevent Relapse?
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 9, pp 512
18.
Macaskill, N D (1990)
Cognitive Therapy Training: The Sheffield Programme.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 8, pp
23-4
19.
Macaskill, N D, Geddes, J and Macaskill, A (1991)
DSM-III in the Training of British Psychiatrists: Results of a
National Survey.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol 37, pp 182-6
20.
Macaskill, N D (1991)
Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 10, pp
30-2
21.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1991)
Cognitive Therapy for Depression:
Efficacy with Severely
Depressed Inpatients and Outpatients.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 10, pp
5-12
22.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1991)
Cognitive Therapy for Depression:
Efficacy of Minimal
Intervention Programmes.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 10, pp
13-20
23.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1991)
Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A Selective Review of Patient
Self-Help Materials.
Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians, Vol 11, pp
5-13
24.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1992)
Psychotherapists in Training evaluate their Personal Therapy:
Results of a UK Survey.
British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 9, pp 133-8
25.
Macaskill, N D et al (1994)
The Return of L-Tryptophan – Case Reports.
International Journal of Human Psychopharmacology, Vol 9, pp
336-40
26.
Macaskill, N D et al (1994)
Good Practice in the Supervision of Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Behavioural Cognitive Bulletin, Vol 2, pp 5-9
27.
Macaskill, N D (1995)
Educating Clients about Rational-Emotive Therapy.
In W Dryden (Ed), Rational-Emotive Therapy:
London – Sage
A Reader –
28.
Macaskill, N D, Pearson, R and Macaskill, A (1996)
Plaster of Paris Phobia: Three cases of an unusual phobia.
Behavioural Cognitive Bulletin, Vol 4, pp 29-33
29.
Macaskill, N D (1996)
Improving clinical outcomes in CBT: 1. The use of Audio taping.
Journal of Rational-Emotive Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy, Vol 14, pp 199-207
30.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1996)
Cognitive therapy plus pharmacotherapy versus pharmacotherapy
on its own in the treatment of high cognitive dysfunction
depression.
Cognitive Therapy and Research, Vol 20, pp 575-592
31.
Macaskill, N D (1996)
Maintaining quality and morale in the face of overwhelming
demand: Strategies for coping creatively in beleaguered CBT
Services.
Behavioural Cognitive Bulletin, Vol 5, pp 25-33
32.
Macaskill, A, Macaskill, N D and Nicol, A (1997)
‘The Defeat Depression Campaign’ : a mid-point evaluation of its
effectiveness.
Psychiatric Bulletin, Vol 21, pp 148-50
33.
Macaskill, N D and Macaskill, A (1999)
Failure to diagnose depression in patients referred for
psychotherapy.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol 45, pp 140-147
34.
Macaskill, N D
Psychopathology is a Reality and Psychodiagnosis is a Necessity.
In C Feltham (Ed) : Controversies in Psychotherapy.
London : Sage 1999
35.
Ness G, Macaskill N
Near drowning: self therapy in situ .
BMJ 2000; 321 : 1604 - 6
36.
Gillian Hardy, J Cahill, D Shapiro, M Barkam, A Rees and N D Macasilll
(2001)
Client Interpersonal and Cognitive Styles as predicted of response
to time limited cognitive therapy for depression.
Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology 2001, Vol 69, p
841-5
37.
Ness G J Macaskill N. D (2003)
Preventing PTSD : The value of inner resourcefulness and a sense
of personal control of a situation : Is it a matter of problem solving
or anxiety management.
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol 31, p 463-466
38.
Cahill J, Barkham M, Hardy G, Rees A, Shapiro D. A, Stiles, and
Macaskill N.D. (2003)
Outcome of patients completing and not completing cognitive
therapy for depression.
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 42, p 133-143
39.
Hardy G. E, Cahill J, Stiles W. B, Ispan C, Barkham A, and Macaskill
N.D (2005)
Sudden gains in Cognitive Therapy for Depression – A Replication
and Extension.
Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, Vol 73, p 59-67
CURRENT MEDICO / LEGAL PRACTICE
I complete on average approximately 150 to 200 medico / legal reports per
annum.
As an Expert Witness, I attend Court on average four times a year.
WAITING LIST
My current waiting list for assessment is 3 weeks. I normally provide a report
within 4 weeks of seeing a patient.
FEE ESTIMATION
I charge £160.00 per hour for work related to a report. (My average charges
for preparing a report are currently £500.00).
Prior to the introduction of the new Civil Procedure laws, approximately 90%
of my cases were for the Claimant.
Currently 60% of my cases are for Claimants and 30% are joint expert reports
and approximately 5-10% are for the Defendant.