Dr Richard Mullen

Dr Richard Mullen studied medicine at Leeds University and trained as a psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He has been a consultant psychiatrist since 1995 and is currently the Clinical Director of the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Service of the Otago District Health Board, in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is also a faculty member of the University of Otago’s Department of Psychological Medicine, engaged in the teaching of medical students and those specializing in psychiatry. In addition to his work on the CTO study, Richard is completing a doctoral degree on delusions, and is interested in the intersections between philosophy and psychiatry.

His additional publications include:

2003, Mullen R. ‘Delusions: the continuum vs category debate’,  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37, 505-511.

2003, Mullen R. ‘The problem of bizarre delusions’, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 8, 546-548.

1999, Hickling F, McKenzie K, Mullen R, Murray R. ‘A Jamaican psychiatrist evaluates diagnoses at a London psychiatric hospital’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 175, 283-285.

1996, Mullen R, Howard R, David A, Levy R. ‘Insight in Alzheimer’s disease’. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11, 645-651.