About

Dr. Farooq Naeem is a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also a consultant psychiatrist and a cognitive behaviour therapist. He joined the Psychiatry training scheme in Liverpool, the UK in 1995. In addition to psychiatry, he also received training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). He received specialist registrar training in the Wessex area, in the UK. During this period he completed a master’s degree in research and received further training in CBT for psychosis from Professor David Kingdon who pioneered CBT for psychosis. He started his career as an Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) psychiatrist in the Hampshire area. He moved to Pakistan to work as an academic psychiatrist in 2006 and returned to the UK in 2009. During this work, he also completed his Ph.D. from Southampton University, UK. He developed a model of “an adaption of CBT for non-western cultures”.He also founded the Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists (PACT) (www.pactorganization.com) during this period. He has written 6 books and numerous book chapters. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals. He has published on various aspects of CBT, trauma, psychosis and culture.