Sami Timimi

DR. SAMI TIMIMI is a practicing consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist in the UK’s National Health Service. He has contributed to over forty books on subjects related to critical psychiatry, childhood, psychotherapy, depression, behavioural problems, and cross-cultural psychiatry; authored six books, including Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD, and the Role of Culture; co-edited four books, including, Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health with Carl Cohen; and co-authored two others, including The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boys’ Social and Emotional Competence with Neil Gardiner and Brian McCabe. His most recent book, published in 2021, is Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them.