Professor David Veale

29/01/2026

I am delighted to be doing a free webinar on CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder on

Thursday 12th February at 8pm (UK time)

See link for details to sign up

I am delighted to be doing a free webinar on CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder on Thursday 12th February at 8pm (UK time) See link for details to sign up

30/03/2023

TONIGHT! I'm pleased to be joining .mentalhealth to discuss BDD in teens. It's a great online event for parents, carers, teachers and teens to join in with. I've got 5 free passes for my followers, found on my blog

https://www.veale.co.uk/news/upcoming-online-discussion-bdd-and-appearance-anxiety

03/11/2021

Tickets are now on sale for the return of Bedlam, our 15 piece band. I'm really excited to be returning to the stage on the evening of Friday December 10th, with new members and new songs for you to enjoy.

Find out more and get your tickets here:

Tickets are now on sale for the return of Bedlam, our 15 piece band. I'm really excited to be returning to the stage on the evening of Friday December 10th, with new members and new songs for you to enjoy. If you don't know much about the band, we perform hits from the

10/10/2021

While decluttering during COVID I came across some wonderful memories, including a 1978 interview I conducted with the psychiatrist R.D. Laing when I was a student. I would love to interview him now, as there are several areas where I have developed overlapping interests - on everything from therapeutic communities to psychedelic research. I've published the full text of the interview to my blog, as well as some of my present day thoughts in the light of my own work in the field.

While decluttering during COVID I came across some wonderful memories which I want to share here. I interviewed the psychiatrist R.D. Laing in 1978 as a medical student at the Royal Free Hospital with my colleague Chris Sinclair. We co-edited with others a medical student magazine, “Free Comment.....

06/10/2021

I am very excited to be part of the JAAQ (Just Ask a Question) website which was launched yesterday on the BBC One Show. Back in May I was filmed answering questions about Body Dysmorphic Disorder. So you can now ask me a question by speech or text on the website and the clever algorithms will find the best answer for you. Read more on my blog, or visit the JAAQ website directly - https://www.jaaq.co.uk/

I am very excited to be part of the JAAQ (Just Ask a Question) website which was launched this evening on the BBC One Show. Back in May I was filmed answering questions about Body Dysmorphic Disorder. So you can now ask me a question by speech

24/09/2021

Our new allotment at the Bethlem Royal is officially open - with the help of Dr Sue Stuart-Smith. After cutting the ribbon she spoke to staff, residents and guests about the growing importance of horticulture for mental health. We’ll be growing vegetables high in fibre and polyphenols, to improve gut microbiota and so mental and physical health. You can read more about our plans, and about the science linking food and health, on my blog.

This week we opened our new allotment at the Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit, which will grow vegetables for a healthy gut microbiota. The project is named “From Plot to Perfect Poo” and supports residents to grow their own vegetables in the open green space at the Bethlem Royal. The allotmen...

14/09/2021

Residents at the Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit (ADRU) at the Bethlem have been getting involved with our allotment project, where they're supported to grow and cook food that will help a healthy gut microbiota. The project also promotes a culture of belonging through shared tasks such as gardening, cooking and hospitality as well as opportunities to do exposure tasks. So I'm really excited that we've been shortlisted for the Royal College Psychiatric Team of the Year 2021: Outstanding commitment to Sustainability/Green Care.

I am excited that the Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit (ADRU) at the Bethlem has been short-listed for the Royal College Psychiatric Team of the Year 2021: Outstanding commitment to Sustainability/Green Care. This has been a really tough year for the unit, and this is just the fillip that our comm...

27/08/2021

Simone Giona and I conducted a research study at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London to reveal how women felt when the depth of pe*******on during in*******se was reduced. Does size matter?

We researched this as men may worry or be ashamed about the length or girth of their p***s. It was of interest to know whether reducing the length of the p***s matters to female sexual partners as much as it does to men.

https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.15416

https://www.veale.co.uk/news/women-discover-if-reducing-p***s-length-affects-their-sexual-pleasure/

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Does size matter? This is an age old question that has previously been answered by surveys. It has not been tested experimentally until now. Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences of King’s College London recruited 12 sexually active couples to participate in a st...

09/08/2021

Have you attended Kleinian therapy for PTSD at least 6 months ago or know someone who has? If so, please consider joining our research study.

This research is interested in your personal, subjective understanding of your experiences, and therefore will ask you to reflect on and explore the phenomenon from your personal standpoint.

https://www.veale.co.uk/research/kleinian/

This research is interested in your personal, subjective understanding of your experiences, and therefore will ask you to reflect on and explore the phenomenon from your personal standpoint. It is important, for this reason, that the Kleinian assessment or therapy for PTSD that you explore in the

08/07/2021

Looking forward to seeing old friends at a real conference and not on Zoom at EABCT 2021 in on 8-11 September. Join my skills workshop in Understanding and treating Death Anxiety. Try out my coffin and other fun exercises at my skills workshop.

Trying out my coffin. This and other fun exercises at my skills workshop in "Understanding and treating death anxiety" So looking forward to seeing old friends at a real conference not on Zoom at EABCT in Belfast on 8th-11th September (actually it's a hybrid, you can Zoom) Background: Death or exist...

06/07/2021

I upload videos regularly of the various webinars I conduct, short films addressing issues and more to my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/drdavidveale. Please subscribe.

Hi. I'm Professor David Veale. I've been a psychiatrist and cognitive behavior therapist for 35 years and am based in London. I specialise in all things rela...

06/07/2021

If you missed my talk on 'Optimising exposure and behavioural experiments for overcoming and ' at the The BDD Foundation - The Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation and OCD ACTION conference, you can watch it now.

This is a talk I gave at the OCD Action/BDD Foundation conference on 26th June 2021. I describe what exposure tasks and behavioural experiments are and the g...