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James Davies obtained his PhD in medical and social anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified psychotherapist (having worked in the NHS), and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He has delivered lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Brown, CUNY, Oxford and London, and has written articles about psychiatry for the New Scientist, Therapy Today and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
He is author of The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent (Routledge, 2011). He lives with his wife and daughter in Shepherd's Bush, London.
[Cracked] should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.
- Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
Chilling reading
- Will Self, Guardian
Davies's book is a potent polemic
- Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
If, in the world of psychiatry, the DSM is Holy Scripture, Cracked is set to become a heretical text.
- Robert Crampton, The Times Magazine
A profoundly disturbing look at the world of Big Pharma ... This is an important book for anyone who has an interest in mental health.
Daily Mail
Builds a disturbing picture of a profession that is in thrall to pharmaceutical companies
- Michael Mosley, BBC Focus
An eye-opening and persuasive work
Publishers Weekly
[A] diligent study
Financial Times
A well-written book ... a positive contribution to the debate about whether psychiatry can become a more open practice.
Therapy Today
Disturbing and uncompromising
Kirkus Reviews
A very controversial, fascinating and powerful read ... full of balanced and reasonable arguments. I would strongly urge all mental health professionals, those in the caring professions as well anybody interested in mental health to read this book.
The Psychologist
An engrossing book, full of interviews with patients and professionals
GP Magazine
I couldn't put the book down. It is totally engaging, as controversial as it is compelling, and as erudite as it is enjoyable ... The book deserves to be a bestseller and should be read by every mental health professional
International Review of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
I, personally, applaud a work that can shine a light into the murky corners of dubious practice'
- Alan Pope, Sitegeist
This is an excellent book....[it] careens, almost literally, from one psychiatric outrage to the next ... I strongly recommend this book.
- Dr Phil Hickey, Behaviourism and Mental Health
This thought-provoking book will make people think twice before sitting on a psychiatrist's couch or filling a prescription
Booklist
This is a very well-written book - intellectually sound, but written in an accessible way ... It should be read by all mental health professionals, by all politicians and policy makers charged with shaping future mental health provision'
- Dr Neil Thompson, Social Justice Solutions
You will be illuminated and often shocked and certainly made to think more about how you view the children in your care. Every teacher should read it
International School Magazine
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
James Davies obtained his PhD in medical and social anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified psychotherapist (having worked in the NHS), and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He has delivered lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Brown, CUNY, Oxford and London, and has written articles about psychiatry for the New Scientist, Therapy Today and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
He is author of The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent (Routledge, 2011). He lives with his wife and daughter in Shepherd's Bush, London.