Patricia Casey

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Professor Patricia Casey is an Irish psychiatrist and conservative activist. She is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin and consultant psychiatrist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.[1] She is probably best known for her promotion of mental health awareness and for her notably right-wing stances on a variety of social issues.

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[edit] Background and personal life

Brought up in Ballynoe in County Cork, Casey's father was a council worker and farmer, while her mother worked as a public health nurse at a time when it was highly unusual for both parents to work outside the home. She has one sibling; a younger sister, Terry. Excelling at school, she went on to study medicine at University College Cork and soon after graduation met her husband, John Casey.[2]

[edit] Medical career

Casey has written five books on psychiatry and is editor of the British Psychiatric Bulletin. Her clinical and research interests include depression and suicide prevention. From 1994 to 1999, she chaired the Irish Fitness to Practise Medical Council Committee.[3] In 2007, The Dubliner magazine listed her in their "Good Doctor Guide".[4]

[edit] Conservative Activism

Casey is a practising Roman Catholic. She sits on the board of the Iona Institute; a conservative Catholic think-tank.[5] She is opposed to divorce,[6] abortion,[7][8][9][10][11] surrogate pregnancy,[12] anonymous donor in vitro fertilisation,[13] and same-sex marriage,[14] as well as being a proponent of adoption.[15] She has testified in front of the Irish Government, at the British House of Commons and in Irish legal cases on a number of these issues.[16][17] Casey also writes a regular opinion column for the Irish Independent newspaper and in the past has contributed to the Sunday Business Post and to the letters page of the Irish Times, as well as appearing on national television and radio.[18]

[edit] References

  1. ^ UCD Research: Professor Patricia R Casey
  2. ^ RTÉ - Conversations with Eamon Dunphy
  3. ^ UCD Research: Professor Patricia R Casey
  4. ^ The Dubliner Magazine: The Good Doctor Guide
  5. ^ Iona - Personnel And Patrons
  6. ^ RTÉ - Conversations with Eamon Dunphy
  7. ^ Ethical questions in embryo battle: ThePost.ie
  8. ^ Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
  9. ^ Family & Life
  10. ^ Conference on New Research in Irish Feminism - Events - Centre for Gender & Women's Studies - Trinity College
  11. ^ Joint Committee the Constitution - default 000523
  12. ^ Parish of Middle Killeavy Home
  13. ^ The forbidden love between relatives separated at birth - Health, Frontpage - Independent.ie
  14. ^ RTÉ - Conversations with Eamon Dunphy
  15. ^ Joint Committee the Constitution - default 000523
  16. ^ Joint Committee the Constitution - default 000523
  17. ^ House of Commons - Science and Technology - Twelfth Report
  18. ^ RTÉ - Conversations with Eamon Dunphy