Edgar Miller (psychologist)

Edgar Miller (1939 - 2015) was a clinical psychologist who played an important role in developing training in clinical psychology in Britain.

Edgar Miller
Born
Edgar Miller

1939
Died2015
Alma materUniversity of Hull
Scientific career
FieldsClinical psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Hull, University of Southampton, University of Leicester

Life

Edgar Miller graduated in Psychology from the University of Hull followed by training in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He returned to Hull as a lecturer and then moved to the new medical school at the University of Southampton as a senior lecturer. He then took up a post as clinical psychologist in Cambridge from which he was seconded to work as an advisor in the Department of Health. Finally, in 1992 he was appointed Chair of Clinical Psychology at the University of Leicester where he stayed until he retired in 2004. At Leicester he led the development of the training programme in clinical psychology.[1]

He was active in the British Psychological Society, of which he was elected president in 1992. His Presidential Address entitled Psychological treatment: nineteenth century style reviewed the historical forebears of clinical psychology. It emphasised the importance of adopting a historical perspective in both the discipline and the profession.[2]

Publications

  • Miller, E., & Morley, S. (1986) Investigating Abnormal Behaviour. Psychology Press.

Awards

References

  1. Hall, John (2015). "Obituary - Ed Miller". The Psychologist.
  2. Miller, Ed (1993). "Psychological treatment nineteenth century style". The Psychologist: 445–450.
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