Dr Mark Collins gives a talk on the Neuroscience of Addiction

On Friday March 23rd Dr Collins will be talking to an audience of French doctors and therapists in Paris on the Neuroscience of Addiction.

Rub Wax’s Losing It

Rub Wax’s show Losing It is on at the duchess theatre and is an excellent and entertaining evening, focussing on depression(!). I have seen it several times and strongly recommend it.

Improving Services to Arabic Patients

I will be talking to London GPs on “Improving Services to Arabic Patients” on 16th June

Talk at a mental health forum with SANE

I will be giving a talk at a mental health forum with SANE, hosted by Ruby Wax and Judith Owen at the Menier Chocolate Factory on Thursday 19th May 2011.

SANE - Meeting the challenge of mental illness

www.menierchocolatefactory.com

My talks from 2010

Wednesday, 1 & 3 December 2010

Presentation on the understanding, screening and management of addiction at Cross Deep Surgery, Twickenham and at Vineyard Hill Surgery.

Saturday, 16 October 2010

A short speech as patron of the Yellow Heart Trust, at a concert organised by the Yellow Heart Trust. The concert launched the Antonio Vasconcellos Fund, who died in the Marchioness riverboat tragedy in 1989. The trust is to help people who suffer from unresolved issues resulting from trauma.


www.yellowheart.org.uk

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Talk with GPs in Wellesley Road Chiswick about Dual Diagnosis.

Wednesday, 13 July 2010

Talk with GPs in Tooting about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Friday, 21 May 2010

Talk with GPs at the Redcliffe Gardens Surgery in Chelsea on The Management of Drug and Alcohol problems in General Practice.

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Talk with GPs at the Wellesley Road Surgery in Chiswick on Dual Diagnosis.

Thursday, 13 May 2010

Spoke at the 7th UK/European Symposium On Addictive Disorders, London. UKESAD is the largest addiction conference in Europe. I talked on: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) use in treatment of PTSD and addiction.


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My publications

A Medical Perspective On Addiction

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Addictions : le point de vue du Dr Mark Collins

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Priory Group research article included in A Level study guide. 2010, p30.

To purchase the study guide visit www.independence.co.uk.

Pilot study of treatment of persistent auditory hallucinations by modified auditory input

M. N. Collins,

C. A. Cull,

L. Sireling.


British Medical Journal, 1989 v.299, p.431-432.

A structured programme for out-patient alcohol detoxification

M. N. Collins,

T. Burns,

P. A. van den Berk,

G. F. Tubman.


The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990 v.156, p.871-874.

Psychiatry MCQ's for the MRCP

M. N. Collins.


British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990, v.156, p. 454-455

Psychiatry Apart, What Psychiatrists Teach Medical Students at St George's

N. A. Joughin,

M. N. Collins.


Bulletin of the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry, Autumn 1990.

Changing Interactions between Bipolar Affective Disorder and Anoxic Brain Damage.

M. N. Collins,

R. R. Jacobson.


British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990, v.156, p.736-740.

Capgras' Syndrome with Organic Disorders: A Report of Three Cases.

M. N. Collins,

M. Hawthorn,

N. Gribbin,

R. R. Jacobson.


Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1990, V.66 (782), p.1064-1067.

Inpatient Withdrawal from Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use

N. Joughin,

P. Tata,

M. N. Collins,

C. Hooper,

J. Falkowski.


British Journal of Addiction, 1991, v.86, p.449-455.

Anxiety

M. N. Collins.


GP, 1990, September 29th 1990, p.31-36.

Lack of Cognitive Recovery Following Withdrawal from Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use

P R Tata,

J Rollings,

M N Collins,

A. Pickering,

R R Jacobson.


Psychological Medicine (1994) 24 : 203-213

About me

Job title / Position / Recent appointments

Consultant Psychiatrist

Lead Consultant - Addiction Treatment Programme

(92 - Present) Fully trained as an EMDR Practitioner. Organiser of regional EMDR support group

(Present Post) Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, London

(Jan 05 - 07) Medical Director, London Office, Cottonwood de Tucson Clinic, USA

Qualifications & Training

MA MBBS MRCP MRCPsych

(1986) MRCPsych

(1979) MRCP (UK)

(1977) MA - Oxford University

(1976) MBBS Honours in Medicine - London

(1973) BA - Oxford University

Hospitals

The Priory Hospital Roehampton

Specialisms

Addictions, affective disorder, anxiety, bereavement, bi-polar disorder, depression, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), general adult psychiatry, mood disorders, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
psychopharmacology, trauma.

Private Outpatient Clinic

Daily clinics at 17 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8GB.

To make an appointment please contact:

Secretary: Lesley Kendrick

Tel: 020 8392 4205

Fax: 020 8392 4258

Email: lesleykendrick@priorygroup.com

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