Simon McCarthy-Jones

Simon is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously worked at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and Durham University (Durham, UK).

He has published widely in fields including auditory verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’), childhood adversity, and the right to freedom of thought. He has also published work at the intersection of psychology and religion, including what we can learn about hallucinations from St Thomas Aquinas and St John of the Cross, as well as on the role of love in psychology.

He is the author of "Can't You Hear Them?: The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices" (Jessica Kingsley, 2017), "Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side" (Oneworld / Basic Books, 2021) and, most recently, "Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind" (Oneworld, 2023).