Dr. James Davies

Dr James Davies graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a DPhil in social and medical anthropology. He is a Reader in Social Anthropology and Mental Health at the University of Roehampton, London, and is an psychotherapist (having practiced in the NHS). He is author of the bestselling book Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good (Icon Books), and is co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, now secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. His forthcoming book is entitled: The New Opium: capitalism, mental health and the sedation of nations (Atlantic Books).