Keep Your Hair On

Fantastic. Very readable, blending personal experience with science, resources and so much helpful, practical information – John Piacentini, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLAThis book is a must-read for anyone who cares about mental health stigma and what it means to have bodies that are far-from-typical. With a unique voice, Clare Mackay brings together personal and professional experience with a seemingly effortless flair. Packed full of easily-digestible evidence from a range of fields, the book is informative, credible and accessible. Keep Your Hair On offers an essential contribution to how we understand body-focused repetitive behaviours, and Mackay is an unstoppable pioneer of the BFRB community – Dr Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews

Clare Mackay is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and has spent over thirty years studying the structure and function of the human brain. In 2023, Clare decided to turn her attention to the disorder that had been with her all along, and ‘came out’ about her secret shame of living with hair pulling disorder. She has since established a number of new collaborations and research projects, and organised the first UK conference for BFRBs. She is committed to raising awareness, improving our understanding and reducing stigma around compulsions to pick, pull or bite.

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