Patricia Casey is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at University College Dublin and Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry at the Hermitage Medical Clinic, Dublin, Ireland. She is Visiting Professor at St Mary's University, London, and Notre Dame Sydney, Australia. She is Editor of BJPsych Advances at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and fifteen books, as well as contributing chapters to an additional twenty-nine.