Dame Til Wykes is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at King’s College London and was Director, NIHR Clinical Research Network: Mental Health and then Senior Spokesperson on Mental Health for NIHR CRN until 2017.
She is now an NIHR Senior Investigator. As part of this series, we spoke to Til about things in life she's learned, her influences and her inspirations... As a child, all of my role models were spies and detectives – I liked to get to the bottom of things and solve mysteries. I think this is probably why I ended up as a clinical psychologist and researcher.
The real turning point was when, at 12 or 13, I ran out of fiction to read in the local library and was allowed to start reading from the adult non-fiction
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