SELECTED  BOOK CHAPTERS

​Radcliff, N. and Timimi, S. (2005) The rise and rise of ADHD. In C. Newnes, N. Radcliffe (eds.) The Making and Breaking Children’s Lives. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.

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Timimi, S. (2006) Critical Child Psychiatry. In D. Double (ed.) Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

 

​Timimi, S. (2009) The Changing Space of Childhood and Its Relationship to Narcissism. In R. House and D. Loewenthal (eds.) Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos. London: Karnac Books.

 

Timimi, S. (2011) Medicalising masculinity. In M. Rapley, J. Moncrieff, J. Dillon (eds.) De-Medicalising Misery. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Timimi, S. (2012) Children’s mental health in the era of globalisation: Neo-liberalism, commodification, McDonaldisation, and the new challenges they pose. In, V. Olisah (Ed.) Essential Notes in Psychiatry. Rijeka: InTech.

 

Moncrieff, J, Rapley, M., Timimi, S. (2014) The construction of psychiatric diagnoses: The case of adult ADHD. In M. Rapley, J. Moncrieff, J. Dillon (eds.) De-Medicalising Misery Volume 2. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

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Timimi, S., Timimi, L. (2015) The social construction of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). O’Reilly, M. (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Timimi, S. (2016) Non-diagnostic practice in child and adolescent mental health. In D. Morely (Ed.) Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Timimi, S. (2016) Starting young: Children cultured into becoming psycho-pharmaceutical consumers – the example of childhood depression. In J. Davies (Ed.) The Sedated Society: confronting our psychiatric prescribing epidemic. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Timimi, S. (2017) Critical Cultural Theory. In B. Cohen (Ed.) Routledge International of Handbook of Critical Mental Health. London: Routledge.

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Timimi, S. (2019) The flawed ideologies of diagnosis and IAPT. In R. Rizq (Ed.) The Industrialisation of Care:  Counselling and Psychotherapy in a Neoliberal Age. Monmouth: PCCS Books.

 

Timimi, S. (2020) Children’s mental health: Time to stop using psychiatric diagnosis. In D. Loewenthal, O. Ness, and B. Hardy (Eds.) Beyond the Therapeutic State. London: Routledge.

 

Timimi, Z., Timimi, S. (2022) Psychiatrisation of school children: Secondary school teachers’ beliefs and practices on mental health and illness. In M. Harbusch (Eds.) Troubled Persons Industries.  Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Bracken, P., Double, D., Fernando, S., Moncrieff, J., Thomas, P., Timimi, S. (2025) The Emergence of the UK Critical Psychiatry Network. In B. Lewis, A. Ali, J. Russel (Eds.) Mad Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

 

Timimi, S.; Aftab, A. (2024) Psychiatry and the shores of social construction. In A. Aftab (Ed.) Conversations in Critical Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

 Foell, J., Timimi, S. (2025) Hermeneutic approaches in mental health and chronic pain. In R. Shah, B. Clarke (Eds) Finding Meaning in Healthcare. London: Routledge