James Davies

The figures are startling. At least one in four of you in the UK and US will suffer from a mental disorder in a given year.*

That is what the psychiatric industry tells us – we are a population on the brink. And that is why it asserts that its services are more essential than ever before

This is the official story we hear, the one gaining airtime in the media, the ear of National Health Service (NHS) policy-makers, and widespread dissemination through celebrity chat-shows and popular magazines. But what if the actual truth about psychiatry were not so sanguine or clear-cut as we have been led to believe? What if there is another more insidious story to be told, one that threatens all of our preconceptions?