MRC Psych David Healy

David Healy, born in Dublin, is a Professor of Psychiatry in McMaster University Canada, previously in Bangor and Cardiff Universities in Wales, UK.

He happened to be in the right/wrong place when the SSRI antidepressants came along bringing in their wake suicides, homicides, sexual dysfunction, birth defects and other problems - all initially hidden by a lack of access to research data, by ghostwriters and the hypnotisability of doctors. He had the good fortune to be surrounded by colleagues who got stuck into nailing down what is happening to medicine and after the setting up of RxISK.org in 2012 to find that there were a great many people who had been injured by treatment who were better at medical research than he was.

His work on the history of physical treatments in medicine and the adverse effects of treatment in based on interviews with key players in developing our current treatments and well as those who have been harmed by them