
James Davies. England. Graduating from Oxford University in 2006, Davies is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton and has practiced as a psychotherapist with organizations including MIND and the UK's National Health Service. He is a co-founder of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry (CEP), which is now the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prescription Drug Dependency. Davies is the author of the best seller Cracked, which was his first book written for a wider audience. It is a critical exploration of current psychiatry based on interviews with leaders of the profession. In addition to Cracked, he has published four other scholarly books with publishers including Stanford University Press, Karnac Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. He has lectured internationally on his research, including at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Brown, UCL, Oslo, Columbia (New York), The New School (New York), and CUNY Graduate Center (New York). York). Davies has also written for numerous media outlets including The Times, The New Scientist, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Therapy Today, Mad in America, and Salon. He has spoken on BBC Radio 4 (Today and PM), Sky News, BBC World News, BBC World Service, LBC, ITV and various radio stations.