James Davies

Research output

Research output per year 2006 2013 2019 2021 2024 2024

• 22 Article
• 9 Chapter
• 8 Book
• 7 Letter
• 11 More
  • 5 Other contribution
  • 4 Commissioned report
  • 1 Paper
  • 1 Editorial

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Forward: Social Justice & Social Change

  Davies, J., Nov 2024, Drop the Disorder: and do something. . Watson, J. (ed.). London: PCCS Books, p. 5-9

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Hidden Costs: The Clinical and Research Pitfalls of Mistaking Antidepressant Withdrawal for Relapse

  Horowitz, M. & Davies, J., 28 Nov 2024, 5 p. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

• Incidence of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms

  Read, J. & Davies, J., Oct 2024, Lancet Psychiatry.

  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

• Shifting the Balance Towards Social Interventions: A Call for an Overhaul of the Mental Health System.

  Davies, J., Guy, A. & Chiva Giurca, B., 14 May 2024, All Party Parliamentary Group (Beyond Pills). 34 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review

• Welling in Schools (another view)

  Davies, J., 1 Feb 2024, Schools of Thought: lessons to learn from schools doing things differently. James, D. & Lunnon, J. (eds.). Bloomsbury

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2023

  Beyond the psychedelic hype: Beyond the psychedelic hype: Exploring the persistence of the neoliberal paradigm

  Davies, J., Pace, B. & Devenot, N., 21 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Psychedelic Studies. 8, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Politicians, experts, and patient representatives call for the UK government to reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing

  Davies, J., John Read, Hollins, S., Moncrieff, J., Horowitz, M. & Guy, A., 5 Dec 2023, In: British Medical Journal. 383, p. 2730 1 p., 383.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

  Davies, J., Horowitz, M., Montagu, L., Moncrieff, J. & Guy, A., 19 Jun 2023, 2 p. BMJ : BMJ Publishing Group.

  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

• “Stabilise-reduce, stabilise-reduce”: A Survey of the common practices of deprescribing services and recommendations for future services.

  Cooper, R., Ashman, M., Moncrieff, J., Davies, J., Guy, A., Mordant, A. & Horowitz, M., 15 Mar 2023, In: PLoS One. 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2021

  Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Caused our Mental Health Crisis

  Davies, J., 3 Jun 2021, Atlantic Books. 400 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

• The costs incurred by the NHS in England due to the unnecessary prescribing of dependency-forming medications

  Davies, J., Cooper, R. E., Moncrieff, J., Montagu, L., Rae, T. & Parhi, M., 18 Oct 2021, In: Addictive Behaviors. 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The New Opium of the People: why our mental health sector has failed

  Davies, J., 2 Jun 2021.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  Open Access

• The Politics of Distress

  Davies, J. & Barnes, J., 26 Jun 2021, 4 p. Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• Therapists' perspectives on working with clients taking psychiatric drugs: Findings from a mixed-methods survey

  Blair , L., Heydon-Hatchett, V., Davies, G., Guy, A. & Davies, J., 13 Mar 2021, In: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. p. 1-13 13 p., 00.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2020

  Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs

  Rizq, R., Davies, J. (Editor) & Guy, A. (Editor), 28 Jul 2020, Monmouth: PCCS Books.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
• 2019

  Antidepressant withdrawal – the tide is finally turning

  Hengartner, M. J., Davies, J. & Read, J., 22 Aug 2019, In: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

• A systematic review into the incidence, severity and duration of antidepressant withdrawal effects: Are guidelines evidence-based?

  Davies, J. & Read, J., 1 Oct 2019, In: Addictive Behaviors. 97, p. 111-121

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• Clinical guidelines on antidepressant withdrawal urgently need updating

  Davies, J., 20 May 2019, In: BMJ. 365, l2238

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Deceived: how big pharma persuades us to keep taking our medicines

  Davies, J., 3 Sept 2019, Drop this Disorder: challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis. PCCS Books, p. 66-78 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Emotions in Fieldwork

  Davies, J. & Stodulka, T., 17 Sept 2019, SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Atkinson, P., Delamont, S., Cernat, A., Sakshaug, J. W. & Williams, R. A. (eds.). SAGE Publications, 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs (an all-party Parliamentary Report for Prescribed Drug Dependence publication)

  Guy, A., Davies, J. & Rizq, R., 4 Dec 2019, London : APPG PDD .

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  File
  2898 Downloads (Pure)

• How Long Does Antidepressant Withdrawal Typically Last?

  Hengartner, M. J., Davies, J. & Read, J., 1 Jun 2019, In: American Journal of Psychiatry . 176, 6

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Lessons from the Anthropological Field: reflecting on where culture and psychotherapy meet.

  Davies, J., 20 Mar 2019, Psychotherapy, Anthropology and the Work of Culture. Martin, K. (ed.). London: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Mental Health in Crisis

  Vos, J., Roberts, R. & Davies, J., Apr 2019, SAGE Publications.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

• The International Antidepressant Withdrawal Crisis: Time to Act

  Read, J. & Davies, J., 30 Jan 2019, In: Psychiatric Times.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

  Open Access
• 2018

  All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence Report on Antidepressant Dependency and Withdrawal

  Davies, J. & Read, J., Jun 2018, APPG PDD . 21 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Antidepressant Withdrawal: a Survey of Patients’ Experience by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence.

  Davies, J., Pauli-Jones, G. & Montagu, L., Sept 2018

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review

• Network meta-analysis of antidepressants - a response

  Timimi, S., Moncrieff, J., Gotzche, P., Davies, J., Kinderman, P., Byng, R., Montagu, L. & Read, J., 22 Sept 2018, In: Lancet. 392, 10152

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Purpose, humility, civility and science.

  Kinderman, P., Davies, J., Timimi, S., Read, J., Guy, A. & Double, D., Jun 2018, In: The Lancet Psychiatry. 5, p. 964-965 2 p., 5.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2017

  Long-term benzodiazepine and Z-drugs use in England: a survey of general practice

  Davies, J., Rae, T. C. & Montagu, L., 1 Sept 2017, In: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE. 67, 662, p. e609-e613

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• Political Pills - how neoliberalism and psychopharmaceuticals are mutually supporting

  Davies, J., Feb 2017, The Sedated Society. Palgrave Macmillan

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Prescribed drug dependence services for long-term BZD use: treating the problem while ignoring its causes Response

  Davies, J., Rae, T. & Montagu, L., 1 Nov 2017, In: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE. 67, 664, p. 503-504

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• The Sedated Society: the causes and harms of our psychiatric prescribing epidemic

  Davies, J., Feb 2017, Palgrave Macmillan.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 2016

  Back to balance: labour therapeutics and the depoliticisation of workplace distress.

  Davies, J., 14 Jun 2016, In: Palgrave Communications. 2, 1, 16027 (2016).

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  119 Downloads (Pure)

• How Voting and Consensus Created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III)

  Davies, J., 21 Sept 2016, In: Anthropology and Medicine. 3, 1, p. 1-15 15 p., 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  467 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Antipsychiatry and the Antidepressants Debate

  Davies, J., 2014, In: The Lancet Psychiatry. 1, 3, p. 174 3.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Profile: James Davies (interview)

  Davies, J., 2014, In: Psychiatr Bull (2014).

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2013

  Big Pharma's Placebo Problem

  Davies, J., 3 Aug 2013, In: Salon.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Cracked: : why psychiatry is doing more harm than good

  Davies, J., 2013, Icon Books. 312 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

• Does Your Child Really Have a Behavioural Problem?

  Davies, J., May 2013, In: Times.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• James Davies's Top Ten Psychiatry Critiques

  Davies, J., Jun 2013, In: The Guardian.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Why Britain is Hooked on Happy Pills (interview with Robert Crampton)

  Davies, J., May 2013, In: The Times Magazine.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2012

  Full disclosure

  Davies, J., 2012, In: NEW SCIENTIST. 213, 2851, p. 28-29

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• 'Label jars, not people'

  Davies, J., 2012, In: NEW SCIENTIST. 214, 2865, p. 7-7

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• The Deceptions of the Pharmaceutical Industy

  Davies, J., Jan 2012, In: Therapy Today.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2011

  Positive and Negative Models of Suffering: An anthropology of our shifting cultural consciousness of emotional discontent

  Davies, J., 2011, In: Anthropology of Consciousness. 22, 1, p. 188-208 2.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

  Davies, J., 2011, East Sussex & New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. 208 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Rationalization of Suffering: Contrary narratives of emotional discontent interplay in complex ways

  Davies, J., 2011, In: Harvard Divinity Bulletin. 39, 1, p. 48-56 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2010

  Anthropological Fieldwork: A relational process

  Davies, J. & Spencer, D., 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience

  Davies, J. (Editor), 2010, New York: Stanford University Press. 288 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review