Peter Tomlinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5576012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Tomlinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomlinson |
| SIGNATURE | TOMLINSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5818-2220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Like a prism
This article focuses on coercion in contemporary psychiatry through the autoethnographic account of Peter, a mental health peer worker who experienced psychosis and coercive psychiatric interventions. Using Peter’s personal narrative and poetry as a prism, this study critically underscores the complex and multifaceted nature of coercion, which extends beyond overt methods and techniques into subtler, informal psychological pressures and systemic …
Exploring writing and publishing as sinthomatic practices in the process of recovery after episodes of psychosis
This study examined the lived experiences of how, for seven individuals, language and writing serve as multifaceted and pivotal tools in shaping subjectivity and providing a means of navigating through the challenges of psychosis. Grounded in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the research delves into the understanding of psychosis, emphasizing the linguistic constitution of the human psyche and the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. Through a c…
Narratives and recovery from negative symptoms in psychosis – a co-constructive study
Recovery is a hot topic in current psychosis literature. However, popular models on recovery, like CHIME-DTAR, fail to address the relationship with factors that might hamper recovery, like experiencing negative symptoms. This study explores how narratives can play a role in recovery from negative symptoms. As a mixed team of researchers, some with lived experience of psychosis, others with a background in clinical psychology or special needs edu…
Healing at the Intersection of Psychosis and Poetry
Questioning the professionalization of recovery
While the recovery concept strongly resonates in clinical mental health care today, it first arose in service user-led contexts. A major risk of this professionalization shift is that recovery primarily becomes defined by treatment providers. This study aims to keep the debate on recovery alive through a collaborative exploration of Pete’s recovery process by means of a bricolage approach. This resulted in an idiographic portrait of Pete’s experi…
From monologue to dialogue in mental health care research
In today’s recovery-oriented mental health care practice and research, the perspectives of service users are considered of great importance. However, academic research into mental health care still mainly produces a scientific monologue in which the researcher (without lived experience) has the last word about the subject’s experiences. A fundamental question that remains underexposed in mental health care research is one of relational ethics: ho…
Mentoring beginning teachers
Student teachers’ experiences of initial teacher preparation in England
Drawing on data generated via large‐scale survey and in‐depth interview methods, this article reports findings which show that being a student teacher in early‐twenty‐first‐century England is a demanding personal experience which requires considerable engagement and commitment in the face of built‐in challenges and risks, and which engenders, for many, highly charged affective responses. Student teachers are centrally concerned during this time w…
Psychological theory and pedagogical effectiveness
Background : After a century of educational psychology, eminent commentators are still lamenting problems besetting the appropriate relating of psychological insights to teaching design, a situation not helped by the persistence of crude assumptions concerning the nature of pedagogical effectiveness. Aims To propose an analytical or meta‐theoretical framework based on the concept of learning promotion potential (LPP) as a basis for understanding …
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
Prospective Mentors' Views on Partnership in Secondary Teacher Training
In the context of a wholesale shift to a school‐based partnership arrangement for the initial training of teachers in the UK, 32 prospective teacher mentors were interviewed using the technique of hierarchical focusing. Twenty‐nine taped transcripts were codified and analysed to reveal aspects of espoused theory in relation to school teacher involvement in the professional training of student teachers. Four general themes are identified from qual…
Teacher-educator thinking in the context of radio-assisted practice
Having it Both Ways
The increased use of interviewing in social and educational research has been accompanied and influenced by wide acceptance of a constructivist view of persons in recent social science. The present paper notes major sources of this viewpoint and highlights, amongst its implications for research interviewing, a validity dilemma concerning the relative roles of interviewer and interviewee. Aspects of this issue are illustrated by reference to two c…
Mentoring beginning teachers
Having it Both Ways
The increased use of interviewing in social and educational research has been accompanied and influenced by wide acceptance of a constructivist view of persons in recent social science. The present paper notes major sources of this viewpoint and highlights, amongst its implications for research interviewing, a validity dilemma concerning the relative roles of interviewer and interviewee. Aspects of this issue are illustrated by reference to two c…
Student teachers’ experiences of initial teacher preparation in England
Drawing on data generated via large‐scale survey and in‐depth interview methods, this article reports findings which show that being a student teacher in early‐twenty‐first‐century England is a demanding personal experience which requires considerable engagement and commitment in the face of built‐in challenges and risks, and which engenders, for many, highly charged affective responses. Student teachers are centrally concerned during this time w…
Questioning the professionalization of recovery
While the recovery concept strongly resonates in clinical mental health care today, it first arose in service user-led contexts. A major risk of this professionalization shift is that recovery primarily becomes defined by treatment providers. This study aims to keep the debate on recovery alive through a collaborative exploration of Pete’s recovery process by means of a bricolage approach. This resulted in an idiographic portrait of Pete’s experi…
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
From monologue to dialogue in mental health care research
In today’s recovery-oriented mental health care practice and research, the perspectives of service users are considered of great importance. However, academic research into mental health care still mainly produces a scientific monologue in which the researcher (without lived experience) has the last word about the subject’s experiences. A fundamental question that remains underexposed in mental health care research is one of relational ethics: ho…
Healing at the Intersection of Psychosis and Poetry
Having it Both Ways
The increased use of interviewing in social and educational research has been accompanied and influenced by wide acceptance of a constructivist view of persons in recent social science. The present paper notes major sources of this viewpoint and highlights, amongst its implications for research interviewing, a validity dilemma concerning the relative roles of interviewer and interviewee. Aspects of this issue are illustrated by reference to two c…
Teacher-educator thinking in the context of radio-assisted practice
Prospective Mentors' Views on Partnership in Secondary Teacher Training
In the context of a wholesale shift to a school‐based partnership arrangement for the initial training of teachers in the UK, 32 prospective teacher mentors were interviewed using the technique of hierarchical focusing. Twenty‐nine taped transcripts were codified and analysed to reveal aspects of espoused theory in relation to school teacher involvement in the professional training of student teachers. Four general themes are identified from qual…
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
Mentoring beginning teachers
Student teachers’ experiences of initial teacher preparation in England
Drawing on data generated via large‐scale survey and in‐depth interview methods, this article reports findings which show that being a student teacher in early‐twenty‐first‐century England is a demanding personal experience which requires considerable engagement and commitment in the face of built‐in challenges and risks, and which engenders, for many, highly charged affective responses. Student teachers are centrally concerned during this time w…
Psychological theory and pedagogical effectiveness
Background : After a century of educational psychology, eminent commentators are still lamenting problems besetting the appropriate relating of psychological insights to teaching design, a situation not helped by the persistence of crude assumptions concerning the nature of pedagogical effectiveness. Aims To propose an analytical or meta‐theoretical framework based on the concept of learning promotion potential (LPP) as a basis for understanding …
Questioning the professionalization of recovery
While the recovery concept strongly resonates in clinical mental health care today, it first arose in service user-led contexts. A major risk of this professionalization shift is that recovery primarily becomes defined by treatment providers. This study aims to keep the debate on recovery alive through a collaborative exploration of Pete’s recovery process by means of a bricolage approach. This resulted in an idiographic portrait of Pete’s experi…
From monologue to dialogue in mental health care research
In today’s recovery-oriented mental health care practice and research, the perspectives of service users are considered of great importance. However, academic research into mental health care still mainly produces a scientific monologue in which the researcher (without lived experience) has the last word about the subject’s experiences. A fundamental question that remains underexposed in mental health care research is one of relational ethics: ho…
Narratives and recovery from negative symptoms in psychosis – a co-constructive study
Recovery is a hot topic in current psychosis literature. However, popular models on recovery, like CHIME-DTAR, fail to address the relationship with factors that might hamper recovery, like experiencing negative symptoms. This study explores how narratives can play a role in recovery from negative symptoms. As a mixed team of researchers, some with lived experience of psychosis, others with a background in clinical psychology or special needs edu…
Healing at the Intersection of Psychosis and Poetry
Like a prism
This article focuses on coercion in contemporary psychiatry through the autoethnographic account of Peter, a mental health peer worker who experienced psychosis and coercive psychiatric interventions. Using Peter’s personal narrative and poetry as a prism, this study critically underscores the complex and multifaceted nature of coercion, which extends beyond overt methods and techniques into subtler, informal psychological pressures and systemic …
Exploring writing and publishing as sinthomatic practices in the process of recovery after episodes of psychosis
This study examined the lived experiences of how, for seven individuals, language and writing serve as multifaceted and pivotal tools in shaping subjectivity and providing a means of navigating through the challenges of psychosis. Grounded in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the research delves into the understanding of psychosis, emphasizing the linguistic constitution of the human psyche and the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. Through a c…
Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works)