Peter Butcher BA (Hons), MPsychol, CPsychol, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society(AFBsPS); and an accredited member of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (the BABCP). Peter has experience working as a cognitive behaviour therapist since the 1970s, a special interest in sharing psychological skills with others, and 20 years association with speech and language therapists working with ... Read morepsychogenic voice disorders. Peter has published widely in international journals on CBTand related subjects, including psychogenic voice, and he has presented papers on these subjects at national and international conferences. In thefieldof trainingnon-psychologists inthe useofpsychologicalmethods, Peter has co-edited Sharing Psychological Skills, a special issue of the British Journal of Medical Psychology in 1985. In the area of psychogenic voice disorders, Peter has authored or co-authored a number of research and theoretical pages, as well as cowritten (with Annie Elias and Ruth Raven) Psychogenic Voice Disorder and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (Whurr, 1993) and co-authored (with Lesley Cavalli) a case study of combined speech and language/psychological treatment in Wanting to Talk (Whurr, 1998). Lesley Cavalli MSc BSc(Hons) CertMRCSLT, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Lecturer in Voice, Speech and Language Therapy Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust & Department of Human Communication Science, University College, London. Lesley Cavalli currently combines her clinical work at Great Ormond Street Hospital with a lectureship in Voice at University College, London. She started her career as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1988 and has specialised in voice disorders in her clinical work, teaching and research for the past 16 years. Her current clinical post involves the tertiary assessment and treatment of children and young adults with a wide range of ENT-related conditions, including psychogenic voice disorders. She is the lead Speech and Language Therapist for the Joint PaediatricVoice Clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Deputy Head of the Speech and Language Therapy Service. Annie Elias, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Voice, The Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Annie Elias has worked with children and adults with voice disorders since qualifying as a speech and language therapist in 1980. In her first post at The Royal London Hospital both Annie and her colleague Ruth Raven began working in a model of cotherapy sessions with Peter Butcher. Together they explored combining voice therapy with CBT and this led to several journal articles and an earlier text. Annie moved to Kent in 1986 to become Head of Speech and Language Therapy Services for part of East Kent. She has maintained a specialist clinical caseload in voice and is a visiting lecturer in Voice at University College, London. Show Less