Dr Joanna Moncrieff is a Reader in Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant in community psychiatry in North East London Foundation Trust. She has researched and written about theories of drug action, the subjective experience of taking psychiatric drugs, decision making, the history of drug treatment and the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally.
Joanna is currently leading the large, government-funded RADAR research programme (Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction). She is one of the founders and the co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network.
Joanna is author of The Bitterest Pills: the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs, and The Myth of the Chemical Cure (Palgrave Macmillan) and A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (PCCS Books). She is co-editor of Demedicalising Misery and Demedicalising Misery volume II (Palgrave Macmillan).
Open Paradigm Project - Joanna Moncrieff
