Mark Freestone

Mark Freestone is Reader in Mental Health in the Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London. He originally trained as a sociologist and has worked in prisons and forensic mental health services for over 15 years as a researcher and clinician, including in Category A prisons that house some of the UK’s most notorious and high-risk criminals. He has also worked at high secure special hospitals as part of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Programme, which piloted new interventions for men and women in the UK with a diagnosis of psychopathy or a severe personality disorder. He was a consultant to series 1 and 2 of BBC America’s Killing Eve, is an editor of the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and currently an advisor to NHS England on services for men and women with a diagnosis of severe personality disorder. He has published several academic articles on personality disorder, psychopathy and violence risk.