Edgar Jones

Edgar Jones is an authority on the psychological effects of war and conflict. He has contributed on screen and as a consultant to a wide range of documentaries (including the award-winning Who Do You Think You Are?) and as an expert commentator for news programs. Having graduated from Nuffield College Oxford with a doctorate in history, he then trained at Guy's Hospital in clinical psychopathology and qualified as a psychotherapist. He works at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience where he researches and teaches post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), shell shock and other traumatic experiences of war; he has over a hundred peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. His daughter, Imogen Jones, played a lead role in the film All Good Children (2010).