Simon Wessely

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders. Allan Horwitz, Jerome Wakefi eld. Oxford University Press, 2012

The Empire of Trauma: An Enquiry into teh Condition of Victimhood. Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman. Princeton University Press. 2009.

The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine. Edited by J. L. Levenson. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.: Arlington, VA. 2005.

Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry. Eds R J Ursano, C S Fullerton, L Weisaeth, B Raphael. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness. Christopher Lane. Yale University Press, 2008.

The Irritable Heart. John Wheelwright. Norton. 2001.

And now the book reviews... British Journal of Psychiatry, 2000.

Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Mark S. Micale. Princeton University Press, 1995.

The Black Death 1356-1352: The Complete History.  Ole Benedictow, Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2004.

Psychological Debriefng: Theory, Practice and Evidence. Edited by B. Raphael and J. Wilson. Cambridge University Press:Cambridge. 2000.

Human Traces. Sebastian Faulks. Hutchinson, 2005.

Paul Lerner. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Making Doctors: AnInstitutional Apprenticeship Simon Sinclair Berg, 1998.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies. Ed Gerald M Rosen. John Wiley & Sons. 2004

Reading and Writing Book Reviews Across the Disciplines. James Hartley. Wiley Periodicals, 2006.

Fighting for Mental Health: A Personal View Norman Sartorius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness: A Report from a Global Programme of the World Psychiatric Association Norman Sartorius, Hugh Schulze. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Christopher Lane, “Shyness: How Normal Behaviour became a Sickness”, Yale University Press, 2007.

Integrated Care for the Complex Medically Ill Frits J Huyse, Friedrich C Stiefel, eds. Saunders/Elsevier, 2006.

Paul Wanke, Russian/Soviet Military Psychiatry, 1904–1945, London and
New York: Frank Cass, 2005.

Ten books chosen by Simon Wessely. Journal of Psychiatry, 2002.

TEXTBOOK OF DISASTER PSYCHIATRY. Ursano R, Fullerton C, Weisaeth L, Raphael B. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. Didier Fassin & Richard Rechtman (translated by Rachel Gomme). Princeton University Press 2009.

FILM REVIEWS

Shine. 1997.

Shelter. 2010.

The Skin I live In. 2011.

The Iron Lady. 2012.

TV REVIEWS

Dogma in Retreat. Talking Cure, BBC2