Joanna Moncrieff is a professor of critical and social psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS. She researchers and writes about the over-use and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs and about the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally. She is currently leading UK government-funded research on reducing and discontinuing antipsychotic drug treatment (the RADAR study), and collaborating on a study to support antidepressant discontinuation. In the 1990s she co-founded the Critical Psychiatry Network to link up with other, like-minded psychiatrists. She is author of numerous papers and books, including “A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs” (2020), “The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs” (2013), and “The Myth of the Chemical Cure” (2009). Her website is JoannaMoncrieff.com.