On this site you will find information about me, my blog- which is about mental health and in particular aimed at fighting stigma- my publications including my memoir ‘The Other Side of Silence- A Psychiatrist’s Memoir of Depression‘, and my continuing work .
Updates:
Out of Her Mind:
How we are failing women’s mental health and what must change
will be published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press
Finding True North: the healing power of place will be published by Sandstone Press on 29th April 2021
You can preorder at: Bookshop.org Amazon Waterstones Blackwells
April 2020: The sadness of lockdown for the Guardian
June 2019 added: recording of my talk at Medicine 2019 on the patient experience- my own!
August 2018 added: Podcast of interview for My Own Worst Enemy with Danny Whittaker ‘Who knew shrinks were human too?’
June 2018 added: interview for BBC radio Orkney from earlier this year
January 2018 Added– an interview with the Mental Elf about both working in mental health care and experiencing mental health problems.
My memoir ‘The Other Side of Silence‘ is now published in the USA and Canada and can be found on Amazon (click links above to go straight to page)
watch the lecture I recently gave in Oxford about my experiences of depression
Patching the Soul 