James Davies

Reader in medical anthropology and psychology, University of Roehampton, London

Dr James Davies is a Reader in medical anthropology and psychology, teaching in the schools of Life & Health Sciences and Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He obtained his doctorate in social and medical anthropology from the University of Oxford and is also a qualified psychotherapist. He has practiced as a psychotherapist in various settings including the NHS.
He is co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, which is now secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence ( https://prescribeddrug.org/ ). He is author of two bestselling books: Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good (Icon 2014) & Sedated: why modern capitalism has caused our mental health crisis (Atlantic Books 2022).