Professor Gareth Owen Supervisors Professor of Psychological Medicine, Ethics and Law Honourary Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Research subject areas Psychiatry Contact details gareth.1.owen@kcl.ac.uk Gareth Owen
Assisted dying is an existential choice, not a treatment People, process, and, power: implementing Advance Choice Documents for Black people in mental healthcare Decision making capacity for treatment in psychiatric inpatients: a systematic review and meta-analysis Developing and testing Advance Choice Document implementation resources for Black African and Caribbean people with experience of compulsory psychiatric admission Digital Advance Care Planning with Severe Mental Illness: A retrospective observational cohort analysis of the use of an electronic palliative care coordination system Advance Statements for Black African and Caribbean people (AdStAC): protocol for an implementation study Digital Advance Choice Documents: Deploying in a Clinical Setting Interpersonal influences on decision-making capacity: A content analysis of court judgments Mental Capacity - why look for a paradigm shift? Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries Self-binding directives in psychiatric practice: a systematic review of reasons What is Formulation in Psychiatry? Difficult capacity cases – the experience of liaison psychiatrists. An interview study across three jurisdictions. Preparing for Mental Health Act reform: Pilot study of co-produced implementation strategies for Advance Choice Documents The Mental Health and Justice Project: reflections on strong interdisciplinarity Advance directives reduce friction over involuntary treatment – Authors' reply Applying decision-making capacity criteria in practice: A content analysis of court judgments Broad concepts and messy realities: Optimising the application of mental capacity criteria 'Clear explanation' in mental capacity assessment Experiences of assessing mental capacity in England and Wales: A large-scale survey of professionals Insight and equality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of socio-demographic associations Quality of Life in elderly ICU survivors before the COVID-19 pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies. Reasons for endorsing or rejecting ‘self-binding directives’ in bipolar disorder: a qualitative study of survey responses from UK service users. Should age matter in COVID-19 triage? A deliberative study Advance Decision Making in Bipolar: A Systematic Review Making ordinary decisions in extraordinary times Reflections on Phenomenological Method in Depression Resource allocation, Age and COVID-19 The PACT advance decision-making template: preparing for Mental Health Act reforms with co-production, focus groups and consultation The Use of Neuroscience and Psychological Measurement in England's Court of Protection Advance decision-making in mental health - suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help: Response to: Zhong, R., Sisti, D. A., & Karlawish, J. H. (2019). A pragmatist's guide to the assessment of decision-making capacity. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(4), 183-185 Psychopathology and Law Taking capacity seriously? Ten years of mental capacity disputes before England's Court of Protection Why have I not been told about this? a survey of experiences of and attitudes to advance decision-making amongst people with bipolar Assessing Decision-Making Capacity After Brain Injury: A Phenomenological Approach Authenticity, insight, and impaired decision-making capacity in acquired brain injury Manic temporality Mental Capacity in Columbia: a comparison with the UK Mis-evaluating the future. Affective Disorder and Decision-Making Capacity for Treatment: a Temporal Understanding Taking capacity seriously? Ten years of mental capacity disputes before England’s Court of Protection The future of the Mental Health Act Unwell in hospital but not incapable: cross- sectional study on the dissociation of decision- making capacity for treatment and research in in-patients with schizophrenia and related psychoses. Capacity in vacuo: An audit of decision-making capacity assessments in a liaison psychiatry service Diversity or disarray? A systematic review of decision-making capacity for treatment and research in schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses. Brain injury, mental capacity and unwise decisions Clinical assessment of decision-making capacity in acquired brain injury with personality change Commentary on "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders. The phenomenological approach to patients with bizarreness Exploring rationality in schizophrenia View all publications
16 September 2025 Assisted dying legislation deemed 'inadequate' as drafted The proposed legislation that would give terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to be…