J. Mark G. Williams


J. Mark G. Williams, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. He held previous posts at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and the University of Wales Bangor, where he founded the Institute for Medical and Social Care Research and the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Academy. He was educated at Stockton Grammar School, Stockton-on-Tees, and at St Peter's College, Oxford.
His research is concerned with psychological models and treatment of depression and suicidal behaviour. He uses experimental cognitive psychology – in particular investigations into the specificity of autobiographical memory – to help understand the processes that increase risk of suicidal behaviour in depression. With colleagues John D. Teasdale and Zindel Segal he developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for prevention of relapse and recurrence in depression, and several RCTs have now found that MBCT significantly decreases the recurrence rate in those who have suffered three or more previous episodes of major depression.
Williams is an ordained priest of the Church of England and Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Works

1. Williams, J.M.G., Fennell, M.J.V., Barnhofer, T., Crane, R., Silverton, S. Mindfulness and the Transformation of Despair: Working with People at Risk of Suicide. New York, Guilford Press.
2. Williams, J.M.G. Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and the Suicidal Mind
3. Teasdale, J.D., Williams, J.M.G & Segal, Z.V. The Mindful Way Workbook. Guilford, New York.
4. Williams, J.M.G & Kabat-Zinn, J., Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meanings, Origins and Applications. Routledge, London
5. Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G., & Teasdale, J.D. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Second Edition. Guilford Publications, New York.
6. Williams, M., & Penman, D. Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World Translations German, Dutch, Danish, simplified Chinese, complex Chinese, French, Bulgarian, Korean, Swedish, Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Czech, Croatian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese, Slovene, Romanian, Arabic.
7. Williams, J.M.G., Teasdale, J.D., Segal, Z.V., & Kabat-Zinn, J. The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Translations: Dutch, Danish, Swedish, German, Greek, Polish, Chinese Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Persian, Croatian, Serbian.
8. Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G., & Teasdale, J.D. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: a new approach to preventing relapse. Guilford Publications, New York. Translations: Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Chinese, Polish, German, Czech.
9. Williams, J.M.G. Suicide and Attempted Suicide. Penguin, London..
10. Williams, J.M.G., Watts, F.N., Macleod, C. & Mathews, A. Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
11. Williams, J.M.G. Cry of Pain: Understanding suicide and self harm. Penguin, London.
12. Williams, J.M.G. The Psychological Treatment of Depression: A Guide to the theory and practice of cognitive-behaviour therapy. . Routledge, London.
13. Scott, J., Williams, J.M.G. & Beck, A.T. Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice. Routledge, London.
14. Williams, J.M.G., Watts, F.N., Macleod, C. & Mathews, A. Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
15. Watts, F.N, & Williams, J.M.G. The Psychology of Religious Knowing Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
16. Williams, J.M.G. The Psychological Treatment of Depression: A Guide to the theory and practice of cognitive-behaviour therapy. Croom Helm Ltd, London & Canberra, and Free Press, MacMillans Ltd, New York. .