He is past President of The British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. He is co-director at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at the Maudsley and the Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit at the Bethlem. His website is www.veale.co.uk. He has published about 100 peer-reviewed articles and four self-help books.

David specialises in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), health anxiety and a specific phobia of vomiting (emetophobia). He is also interested in the rapid treatment of depression using Wake and Light Therapy. and nutritional psychiatry.

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Medicine, University of London 1995

Master of Philosophy, Royal Free School of Medicine 1989

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Royal Free School of Medicine 1982

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bedford College, University of London 1979

Professional Qualifications

Fellow, British Psychological Society , FBPsS Dec 2015 –

Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, FRCPsych 2003 –

Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, MRCPsych 1987 –

CBT For Emetophobia (fear Of Vomiting)