Dr Joanna Collicutt
Email: j.collicutt@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4264
Biography
Rev’d Dr Joanna Collicutt McGrath teaches psychology of religion for the MA course. She studied experimental psychology and theology at the University of Oxford, and clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. She is a chartered clinical psychologist and chartered neuropsychologist with many years’ experience in clinical practice, most recently as head of psychology services at the Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust in Oxford. She is an associated fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has also worked in theological research and taught psychology of religion and pastoral psychology at the University of Oxford.
Her interests are wide ranging, reflected in publications on cognitive behaviour therapy, brain and behaviour, psychological approaches to biblical exegesis, psychological responses to trauma, the spirituality of children and those with special needs, and medical ethics.
She has served on local research ethics committees, is a trustee of Godly Play UK, and is assistant curate of an Anglican team parish in Oxfordshire.
A selection of some recent and forthcoming publications
Collicutt McGrath J (2006). Post-traumatic growth and the origins of early Christianity. Mental Health, Religion and Culture 9, 291-200
Collicutt McGrath J and Linley PA (2006). Post-traumatic growth and acquired brain injury: A preliminary small scale study. Brain Injury 20, 767-773.
Duff J and Collicutt McGrath J (2006). Meeting Jesus: Human responses to a yearning God. SPCK, London.
McGrath A and Collicutt McGrath J (2007). The open secret: The renewal of natural theology. Blackwell, Oxford
Collicutt McGrath J. (2007). Ethical practice in brain injury rehabilitation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.