John Cromby is a psychologist at Loughborough University. Previously he has worked in the Universities of Nottingham and Bradford, and has conducted research in intellectual disability, mental health and drug addiction settings. He is interested in the character of experience: specifically, how experience gets constituted by the meshing of bodies and social influence. His research has explored this meshing in relation to substantive topics including emotional responses to crime, paranoia, depression and clinical distress in general. Strands of this work engage with the ‘affective turn’ in social science and the humanities, and (with the Midlands Psychology Group) promote critical, social-materialist explanations for mental health difficulties. He is the author of ‘Feeling Bodies’ (in press, Palgrave), the co-author of ‘Psychology, Mental Health and Distress’ (Palgrave, 2013) and the co-editor of ‘Social Constructionist Psychology: a critical analysis of theory and practice’ (OU, 1999), and is a former co-editor of the journal ‘Subjectivity. His work has been published in journals including Qualitative Research in Psychology, Critical Social Policy, Theory & Psychology, Biosocieties, Health Psychology Review, British Journal of Criminology, Sociological Review and the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities Research