Dr Paul McLaren

Medical Director and Adult Psychiatrist

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Dr Paul McLaren

Dr Paul McLaren is a General Adult Psychiatrist and Medical Director at the Priory Hospital Hayes Grove the Priory Ticehurst House. He was a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and held a Senior Lecturer appointment in psychiatry at Kings College, London.

Training

He trained in medicine at the Universities of Oxford and London. He has special clinical interests in addiction and psychological trauma and is a member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of psychiatric disorders from schizophrenia through to anxiety and depressive disorders.

Research Interests

He has experience in assessing parental mental health in the context of childcare proceedings and preparing medico-legal reports in the areas of post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric disorders complicating physical injury. He is experienced in occupational psychiatry.

Specialist Areas

Services Offered

Conditions Treated

Qualifications

MA and BA Physiological sciences (Oxon)
MB BS (London)
MSc (London) FRCPsych

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Acquired Brain Injury

Acute Inpatient Services

Addiction Treatment

Adjustment Disorder

Adult Acute, HDU & PICU

Affective Disorders

Agoraphobia

Alcohol Rehabilitation

Alzheimer's Disease

Anger Management

Anorexia Nervosa

Anxiety

Anxiety Attack Treatment

Asperger Syndrome

Attachment Disorder

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD

Autism

Autism and Learning Disability NHS Service

Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Bereavement

Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

Bipolar Disorder

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

Brain Injury Services

Bulimia Nervosa

CAMHS

CAMHS Tier 4

Cannabis Addiction

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

Cocaine Addiction

Conduct Disorder

Dementia

Depression

Depression in Seniors

Drug Induced Psychosis

Drug Rehabilitation

Early Onset Dementia

Eating Disorders

CAMHS Eating Disorders

Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)

Eating Disorders Services

Ecstasy / MDMA Addiction

Exercise Addiction

Food Addiction

Gambling Addiction

Gaming Addiction

Gender Dysphoria

CAMHS HDUs

Heroin Addiction

High Dependency Units - (HDUs)

Huntington's Disease

Internet Addiction

Kleptomania

Korsakoff's Syndrome

Learning Disabilities

Legal High Addiction

Lewy Body Dementia

CAMHS Low Secure Services

Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)

Mental Health Treatment

Motor Neurone Disease

Multiple Sclerosis

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)

Neurobehavioural Services

Neurophysical Services

Neuropsychiatry, Older Adults and Dementia

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Oppositional Defiance Disorder

Panic Attack Treatment

Parkinson's Disease

Perinatal Depression

Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders NHS Services

Phobias

Pick's Disease

CAMHS PICUs

Plastic Surgery Addiction

Porn Addiction

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment

Psychiatric Intensive Care Units - (PICUs)

Psychoses (CAMHS)

Rehabilitation & Recovery

Relationship Problems

Schizophrenia

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Secure Services

Selective Mutism

Self Harm

Active Rehabilitation for Severe and Enduring Mental Health - NHS

Sex and Love Addiction

Sexual Dysfunction

Shopping Addiction

Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)

Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)

Stimulant Addiction

Stress

Stroke

Tourette's Syndrome

Transcultural Mental Health Issues

Trauma Counselling

Traumatic Brain Injury

Treatment Resistant Depression

Trichotillomania

Uncommon disorders in the elderly

Vascular Dementia

Work Addiction

Young People’s Services

Amphetamine Addiction

Secondary Addiction Care

Ketamine Addiction