Mr Martin Murphy | Non-fiction editor specialising in mental health topics

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I provide meticulous developmental editing, copyediting and proofreading services and specialise in mental health topics.

My friendly and helpful approach aims to ensure that your content has the desired impact, demonstrating your professionalism and positioning you as a source of expertise in your field. 

Within metal health I can draw on the knowledge accrued from editing a wide variety of books, journal articles and reports – alongside my previous experience as a health adviser with the NHS – to assist clients in this field.

I can mark up documents on hard copy using the British Standard proofreading symbols (BS 5261C) or on-screen using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or Microsoft Word. I'm particularly familiar with Word add-in and consistency checker PerfectIt, including using it to design style sheets in line with clients' requirements.

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Material edited

• Books
• Reports
• Journal articles
• Financial reporting standards
• Theses and dissertations

Experience

Freelance at Murphy Editorial since 2017; Professional Member of the CIEP since 2020

Training

• Non-fiction Developmental Editing, CIEP (2025)
• Word for Practical Editing, CIEP (2022)
• Copyright Essentials, Publishing Training Centre (2020)
• An Editor's Guide to Author Queries, Publishing Training Centre (2020)
• An Editor's Guide to Editing References, Publishing Training Centre (2020)
• Editorial Style, Publishing Training Centre (2020)
• Editing Fiction, Publishing Training Centre (2019)
• Proofreading PDFs, Publishing Training Centre (2019)
• Basic Proofreading, Publishing Training Centre (2017)

Clients

• Language Service Sweden
• PCCS Books
• Niche (Health & Social Care Consulting)
• IFRS Foundation
• Troubador Publishing

Areas I specialise in

• Psychotherapy (mood disorders, eating disorders, addiction treatment, etc.)
• Psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• NHS-commissioned care and treatment investigations
• Social science studies (criminology, race and cultural studies, sociology, social policy)

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Criminology and Sociology (2:1)
• NVQ Level 4 in Magazine Journalism

Specialised software

• PerfectIt
• Microsoft Word (Office 365), Track changes
• Adobe Acrobat

Testimonials

'Martin was a pleasure to work with and made the editing process very straightforward. He has admirable attention to detail and was particularly helpful in ensuring accurate and consistent referencing throughout the text.'

Jill McCanney, author: Autism and Managing Anxiety: Practical Strategies for Working with Children and Young People

'Thank you, Martin Murphy, for your attention to detail in preparing my book for publication. I appreciate the time and effort you put in and what a great job you did.'

Madhavi Nawana Parker, author: The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox

'I am certainly impressed with how thorough and meticulous a job you have done, and I thank you for that.'

Colin Corliss, author: The Rediscovered Psychoanalytic Work of Herbert Silberer

'I was particularly impressed by Martin's ability to scrutinise a somewhat sensitive appendix section in order to find any issues with legality or confidentiality.'

Hayley Russell, Troubador Publishing

'Again, we appreciate all the attention you have given our book. It is already better because of it.'

Stephen Barnard, author: All Media Are Social: Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media

• Editor
• Proofreader

• Body, mind & spirit
• Criminology
• Health, fitness & wellness
• Psychology & psychiatry
• Self-help
• Social sciences

• Academics
• Businesses
• Educational institutions
• Non-profit organisations
• Research institutions

• Copywriting
• Writing