Insane Medicine with Sami Timimi

A revolution in mental health care is inevitable. The current systems have failed and are un-reformable. They will be overthrown. And you’re about to find out why.

Be prepared to be shocked by a level of failure and deceit in our mental health industry which you never knew possible. We learn how the diagnoses we use are more akin to astrological than medical constructs. Despite apparent innovations in drugs and therapy, five decades of research has shown no improvement in outcomes from treatment. Instead we see an increase in the numbers categorised as severely mentally ill. Worse, we have convinced the population that they are experiencing pandemics of mental disorders, leading us to fear our ordinary emotions and to scythe away at our natural resilience. In short, the mental health industry has caused more harm than good.

In this hard hitting talk, Sami Timimi, a child psychiatrist with over 30-years-experience as a practicing doctor and researcher, reveals the shocking truth about the unintended harms this industry has caused, both to those in distress and our culture more broadly. He will explain how our institutional ideology traps people into becoming long-term patients and proposes a simple theory that explains why more people become long-term patients than get better, as well as sharing tips on how those caught in this trap can find safe ways back to health and contentment.

The talk will be followed by a live Q&A during which our audience can put their questions to Sami. We will send out a recording of this talk/panel discussion to all ticket holders within a week of the event taking place.

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SPEAKER PROFILE: Dr Sami Timimi

Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service and a Visiting Professor of Child Psychiatry and Mental Health Improvement at the University of Lincoln, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and childhood and has published over a hundred and thirty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, psychotherapy, and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored 6 books, co-authored 2 books, and co-edited 4 books. His latest book is, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them, is available in serialised form on the Mad in America website, or in paperback/ebook.

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