Professor Peter Fonagy recognised in King’s Birthday Honours 

Peter has worked with UCLPartners since 2010, steering our work to improve mental health care for children and young people across North London and parts of Essex. Peter has led transformational work, such as the development of the UCLPartners-Primrose framework – created to reduce the major health inequalities faced by those with severe mental illness, and more recently, development of Thrive pathways – accelerating the application of innovation and research to close the treatment gap in children and young people’s mental health care. 

His research interests include the development of attachment relationships and mental health conditions, and he has pioneered psychological therapies for severe and persistent mental disorders such addressing self-harm, suicide and aggression. 

In addition to his role at UCLPartners, Peter is also the Head of the UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, and Senior National Clinical Adviser on Children and Young People’s Mental Health for NHS England. 

Professor Peter Fonagy said:

It is wonderful to be recognised, but this recognition truly belongs to the many colleagues whose brilliance, support, and kindness have enabled any achievement. I am deeply grateful for the award. Working to address mental health issues that so many, including myself, have struggled with has been my life’s privilege.