Craig Murray

Senior Lecturer in Research Methods

Research Interests

Craig carries out qualitative research into chronic illness and mental health with a particular emphasis on implications for clinical psychologists and services. This has most recently involved examining (in collaboration with Jane Simpson) caregivers' experiences of caring for a husband with Parkinson's disease and psychotic symptoms, an analysis of delusions in people with Parkinson's disease, and co-contructions of couplehood by couples when one partner has dementia.Other current research projects include recovery from bipolar disorder (with the Spectrum Centre), the experience of CBT for PTSD, and suicide prevention (with Manchester University). Other clinical topics in which he is research active include self-harm, anomalous experiences, and mental health following amputation.

Selected Recent Publications

• Murray, C.D. (2001) The experience of body boundaries by Siamese twins. New Ideas in Psychology 19(2), 29-42
• Murray, C.D. and Gordon, M. (2001) Changes in bodily awareness induced by immersive virtual reality. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 4(3), 365-372.
• Murray, C.D. and Wynne, J. (2001) Using an interpreter to research community, work and family. Community, Work and Family, 4(2), 157-170.
• Sixsmith, J. and Murray, C.D. (2001) Ethical issues in the documentary analysis of e-mail posts and archives. Qualitative Health Research, 11(3), 423-432
• Warm, A., Murray, C.D. and Fox, J. (2002) Who helps? Supporting people who self-harm. Journal of Mental Health, 11(2), 121-130.
• Murray, C.D. and Fox, J. (2002) Body image and prosthesis satisfaction in the lower limb amputee. Disability and Rehabilitation, 24(17), 925-931.
• Murray, C.D. and Sixsmith, J. (2002) Using Internet posts and archives in health research. Health Informatics, 8(2), 11-28.
• Fox, J., Murray, C.D. and Warm, A. (2003) Researching sensitive topics using web-based questionnaires: Practical, methodological, and ethical considerations. International Journal of Social Research Methodology Theory and Practice, 6(2), 167-180.
• Warm, A., Murray, C.D. and Fox, J. (2003) Why do people self-harm? Psychology, Health and Medicine, 8(1), 72-79.
• Murray, C.D. and Turner, E. (2004) Health, risk and sunbed use. Health, Risk and Society, 6(1), 67-80.
• Murray, C.D. and Harrison, B. (2004) The meaning and experience of being a stroke survivor: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Disability and Rehabilitation, 26(13), 808-816.
• Murray, C.D. (2004) An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the embodiment of artificial limbs. Disability and Rehabilitation, 26(16), 963-973.
• Murray, C.D. (2005) The social meanings of prosthesis use. Journal of Health Psychology, 10(3), 425-441.
• Murray, C.D. and Fox, J (2005) The out-of-body experience and body image: Differences between experients and non-experients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193(1), 70-72.
• Murray, C.D. and Rhodes, K. (2005) The experience and meaning of adult acne. British Journal of Health Psychology, 10(2), 183-202.
• Murray, C.D., Warm, A. and Fox, J. (2005) The Internet, Self-harm and adolescents. The Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 4(1), 1-9.
• Murray, C.D. and Fox, J. (2005) Body image in persons with and without prior out-of-body-experiences. British Journal of Psychology, 96(4), 441-456.
• Murray, C.D., Patchick, E., Pettifer, S., Caillette, F. and Howard, T. (2006) Immersive virtual reality as a rehabilitative technology for phantom limb experience. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 9(2), 167-170.
• Murray, C.D., Patchick, E., Pettifer, S., Howard, T., Caillette, F., Kulkarni, J. and Bamford, C. (2006) Investigating the efficacy of a virtual mirror box in treating phantom limb pain in a sample of chronic sufferers. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 5(3), 227-234.
• Murray, C.D., Patchick, E., Caillette, F., Howard, T. and Pettifer, S. (2006) Can immersive virtual reality reduce phantom limb pain? In Westwood, J.D., Haluck, R.S., Hoffman, H.M., Mogel, G.T., Phillips, R., Robb, R.A. and Vosburgh, K.G. (eds.) Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Series. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14: Accelerating Change in Healthcare: Next Medical Toolkit. IOS Press. (pp. 407-412).
• Murray, C.D., Pettifer, S., Howard, T., Patchick, E., Caillette, F., Kulkarni, J. amd Bamford, C. (2007) The treatment of phantom limb pain using immersive virtual reality: three case studies. Disability & Rehabilitation, 29(18), 1465-1469.
• Murray, C.D. (2008) Embodiment and prosthetics. In P. Gallagher, D. Desmond and M. MacLachlan (Eds.) Psychoprosthetics: State of the Knowledge. Springer. (pp.119-130).
• Murray, C.D., MacDonald, S. and Fox, J. (2008) Body satisfaction, eating disorders and suicide ideation in an internet sample of self-harmers reporting and not reporting childhood sexual abuse. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 13(1), 29-42.
• Williamson, C., Simpson, J., & Murray, C.D. (2008). Caregivers' experiences of caring for a husband with Parkinson's disease and psychotic symptoms. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 583-589.
• Murray, C.D. (2009) The personal meanings of prosthesis use. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31(7), 573 - 581.
• Murray, C.D. (2009) A review of the use of virtual reality in the treatment of phantom limb pain. Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation, 2(2), 105-113
• Murray, C.D. (2009) Exploring self-injury and suicide in relation to self-harm discussion groups on the Internet. In L. Sher (Ed.) Internet and Suicide. Nova Science Publishers, New York.
• Wilde, D. and Murray, C.D. (2009 The evolving self: finding meaning in near-death experiences using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 12(3), 223-239.
• Wilde, D.J and Murray, C.D. (2009) An interpretative phenomenological analysis of out-of-body experiences in two cases of novice meditators. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37(2), 90-118.
• Murray, C.D. (ed.) (2009) Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences. Nova Science Publishers, New York.
• Murray, C.D. (ed.) (2010) Amputation, Prosthesis, and Phantom Limb Pain: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Springer
• Childs, C. and Murray, C.D. (in press) 'We all had an experience in there together': A discursive psychological analysis of collaborative paranormal accounts by paranormal investigation team members. Qualitative Research in Psychology
• Wilde, D.J. and Murray, C.D. (in press) Interpreting the anomalous: Finding meaning in out-of-body and near-death experiences. Qualitative Research in Psychology
• Todd, D., Simpson, J., and Murray, C.D. (in press). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of delusions in people with Parkinson's disease. Disability and Rehabilitation.