Mary McMurran is Professor of Personality Disorder Research at the University of Nottingham. She is series editor for the
Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology and her previous books include Motivating Offenders to Change, commended by the BMA. She is co-editor of
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health and associate editor of both
The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and
Psychology and Legal and Criminological Psychology. She received the Senior Award for Significant Lifetime Contribution from the British Psychological Society in 2005.
Richard Howard is Senior Research Fellow at The Peaks Academic and Research Unit at Rampton Hospital in the UK, and Reader in Personality Disorder Research at the University of Nottingham.