John Callender (psychiatrist)

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John Callender (MB Chb, MD, MRCPsych, FRCPsych) is a Scottish psychiatrist and philosopher born in 1954.

Callender graduated from Glasgow University in 1977. He is a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen, the Assosciate Director of Grampaian Medical Health Services and an Honorary SeniorLecturer at the University of Aberdeen.

His philisophical research is primarily focused on the application of Kantian ethics and aesthetics to psychiatric disorders and theraputic treatment. He has published articles in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.

He lives in Aberdeen with his wife and three children.


Papers

"Ethics and aims in psychotherapy: a contribution from Kant"[1]

"The Role of Aesthetic Judgments in Psychotherapy" [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/v012/12.4callender01.html ]