Dr. Martin Feakins

Biography

Dr. Martin Feakins grew up in Ireland and received his medical degree in 1992, returning to his birth country, England, to start his training in psychiatry. He completed a training scheme at the Royal London Hospitals, developing particular interests in mentally disordered offenders, intensive care psychiatry, rehabilitation psychiatry, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He attained Membership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1998 and completed his training in 2001. Throughout his career, Dr. Feakins has held senior positions and sought a broad range of experience, including looking after acute rehabilitation patients and managing an intensive care unit for three years, as well as spending two years working in British prisons. He has acted as an independent expert in a number of low-profile trials involving mentally disordered offenders. Dr. Feakins has a small number of publications in the field of personality disorder rehabilitation psychiatry. Teaching has occupied a central part of his career, and he currently finds his interests met in his position as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Queen’s University, where he oversees the Community High Intensity Treatment Team, which addresses patients with unusually complex problems.

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