Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2015
- Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2014
- Chair Personality Disorders Section, World Psychiatric Association, 2007
- Founder President, British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders
External Positions
- Chair, Violence and aggression: the short-term management of violent and physically threatening behaviour in mental health, health and community settings. Guideline committee, NICE, 2014
- Chair, Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse (CG120) Guideline Committee, NICE, 2011
- Chair, Work Group for Revision of Classification of Personality Disorders (ICD-11), World Health Organisation, 2010 - 2014
- Chair, Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (CG78) guideline committee, NICE, 2009
- MRC Advisory Board
- Research Council of Norway
Fellowships
- Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
Editorial Boards
- British Journal of Psychiatry, Editor, 2003
- Psychological Medicine, Editorial Board, 2000
- Depression and Anxiety, Editorial Board, 1995
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Editorial Board, 1993
- Journal of Personality Disorders, Editorial Board, 1987