Henry O'Connell

Henry O'Connell is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in Portlaoise, Ireland and Associate Clinical Professor with the School of Medicine at the University of Limerick. He has a special interest in how principles of evolutionary psychology can be applied to psychiatry, mental health and illness and medical education. Henry was the founding chair of the college of psychiatrists of Ireland Evolutionary Psychiatry special interest group in 2021 . In 2022 he published his textbook Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases. Henry is a leading expert in the field of evolutionary psychiatry and has written extensively on the topic. He is based in Portlaoise, Ireland.