WHO I AM

I have been a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist since 1997. I'm also an experienced Psychotherapist. I currently live in the small city of Lincoln in the UK. I qualified as a doctor from Dundee University in 1988 and became a Member of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1992, becoming a Fellow of the college in 2012. I am also an author who writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and I've published over a hundred and thirty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, psychotherapy, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. I've authored 7 books including Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture, co-edited 4 books including, with Carl Cohen, Libratory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health, and co-authored 2 others including, with Neil Gardiner and Brian McCabe, The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boys’ Social and Emotional Competence. My book, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them, is available in serialised form on the Mad in America website and for purchase here. My latest book, Searching for Normal A New Approach to Understanding Distress and Neurodiversity  is available to order here.