Sami Timimi

Sami Timimi

Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Director of Postgraduate Education in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lincoln, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to child and adolescent mental health and has published many articles in leading journals on many subjects including eating disorders, psychotherapy, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored several books including Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood, published in 2002, Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture, published in 2005, Misunderstanding ADHD: A Complete Guide for Parents to Alternatives to Drugs published in 2007,  He co-edited with Begum Maitra Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health published in 2006, Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics, and Mental Health with Carl Cohen, published in 2008 and Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture with Jonathan Leo in 2009. In 2012 he launched the Campaign to Abolish Psychaitric Labels.

Books by Sami Timimi