Review in The Sunday Times (London) of book on history of psychiatry

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

 

But obviously not our first class British psychiatry which is beyond reproach

 

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.