David Goldberg

David Goldberg is a British psychologist and psychiatrist best known for his work in psychiatric epidemiology. He developed the General Health Questionnaire and advocated a bio-social model for mental disorders

David Goldberg was educated at William Ellis School and Hertford College, Oxford. He took a degree in psychology and went on to do his clinical work at He as a DPM project, and developed it further for his DM degree. After leaving the Institute he spent a year in Philadelphia before returning to Manchester as a senior lecturer. In 1972 he was appointed Professor and Head of Department at Manchester and spent the next 20 years building up the Department.. He returned to the Maudsley in 1993 as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research and Development, and was knighted in 1997. He became a Professor Emeritus of King's College London in 2000.

Education
He was educated at William Ellis School and Hertford College, Oxford where he took a degree in psychology. After a number of hospital placements he then he studied psychiatry under Sir Aubrey Lewis at the Maudsley.

In an interview he said my father "insisted on me training as a doctor. I wanted to train as a psychologist when I was an undergraduate and he only allowed me to read psychology at Oxford if I also read medicine. My father was the civil servant in charge of government training centres and industrial rehabilitation units after the war. When these had finished with ex-servicemen, they turned their attention to mental hospital patients. As a schoolboy, I followed my father's work in this unfamiliar field with great interest. He noted that psychologists, mainly industrial psychologists at that time, tended to have a chip on their shoulders about not being medically qualified. He therefore suggested that if I insisted on being a psychologist then I should train as a doctor." Psychiatric Bulletin

Positions
After leaving the Institute he spent a year in Philadelphia before returning to Manchester as a senior lecturer. In 1972 he was appointed Professor and Head of Department at Manchester. He returned to the Maudsley in 1993 as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research and Development, and was knighted in 1997. He became a Professor Emeritus of King's College London in 2000.