Review by Sebastian Faulks of Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull. This in the review stood out to me: Review (paywalled): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...chilling-truth-about-mental-illness-7swk0drq6 Book on Amazon UK:
From the Amazon page: Andrew Scull weighs American psychiatry in the balance and finds it seriously wanting. So this may not be the best introductory text for an aspiring medical student. But it is required reading for anyone who appreciates great writing, insight and outstanding scholarship - just the kind of people we want doing psychiatry -- Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Comically revealing. Write well, appear witty and get max funding, I guess this looks about as good a description of Wessely's career trajectory and accomplishments. Not much else to be found. Oh, I guess a unhealthy dose of lack of self-awareness, it completes the picture so marvelously.