Penelope Campling

About The Author

Penelope Campling is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. For twenty years, she ran the NHS personality disorder unit in Leicester, and she is the co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (CUP, 2020). Now retired from the NHS, she continues to lecture and campaign, and works in private practice. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, she has been supporting clinicians on the  frontline in intensive care units. 

Books by Penelope Campling

On the Brink

What I've learned from a lifetime of working with mental illness – and how we can all do better

By Penelope Campling
‘Perhaps the truth is that severe mental illness is just as frightening, just as stigmatising, just as much a taboo as it has always been . . .’

Over the course of her forty-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of l...
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Don't Turn Away

Healing troubled minds in challenging times

By Penelope Campling
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