YOU CANNOT 'HAVE' ADHD is a powerful episode with Sami Timimi, a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire and a Visiting Professor of Child Psychiatry and Mental Health Improvement at the University of Lincoln, in the UK.

Sami writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and childhood and has published over a hundred and thirty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, therapy, mental health services, and culture. He has authored 6 books including 'Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour', 'ADHD and the Role of Culture' co-edited 4 books including, with Jonathan Leo, 'Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture'.

His latest book, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them, is available in serialized form on the Mad in America website as well as for purchase on Amazon.

In 2004, Sami Timimi spearheaded and co-endorsed the creation of “A Critique of the International Consensus Statement on ADHD, essentially the rebuttal of such statement lead by Russell Barkley.

For more information on Sami Timimi, please visit https://www.samitimimi.co.uk

His books: https://www.samitimimi.co.uk/patient-stories

To read the 'International Consensus Statement on ADHD', please visit http://russellbarkley.org/factsheets/Consensus2002.pdf

For Sami Timimi and his team's rebuttal on the above consensus, please visit http://www.brown.uk.com/diagnosis/timimi.pdf

For more information on this podcast and the movement, please visit www.adhdisover.com