Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist who lives in Lincoln in the UK. He is also an author who 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, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored 4 books including ‘Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture’, co-edited 4 books including, with Carl Cohen, ‘Libratory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health’, and co-authored 2 others including, with Neil Gardiner and Brian McCabe, ‘The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boys’ Social and Emotional Competence’.
