Linda Blair
Literary Agent: Amanda Preston
Linda has worked as a clinical psychologist for over 25 years. She studied developmental psychology at Wellesley College and Harvard University, and she completed her clinical training at the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1980.
Over the next 20 years she lived in Cambridge and worked in a number of part time jobs for the University of Cambridge, the NHS and the Medical Research Council while raising her three children. She also started her own private practice, and developed interests in cognitive therapy, positive thinking, and mindfulness and meditation.
In 2000 she moved with her family to Bath where she continued her clinical work at the University of Bath, in the NHS and in private practice. However, by the end of 2004 she'd resigned from most of her clinical commitments because her writing and media work had become so time consuming.
Linda is a member of the media committee which the British Psychological Society (BPS) recommends to TV and radio presenters as well as to journalists. She writes a weekly column in The Guardian, and monthly columns in Psychologies and Junior magazines, and she's quoted regularly in the press. She broadcasts frequently on radio and has appeared in a number of TV shows including Child of our Time, Mindshock (about children raised without language), and Yesterday Once More (about the life of Karen Carpenter).
Linda's professional qualifications include Chartered Status with the BPS where she's an Associate Fellow. She's also a Chartered Scientist, and is accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
She describes her main interests as her family and friends, her dogs, swimming and walking, literature, and almost anything at all psychological.
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