#875 UK Prof. Matthew Smith on The Mental Health Crisis in The U.S.

Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare.  He is the author of The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States (Columbia UP, 2023) and has written or co-edited many other books on the history of mental health and psychiatry, food and nutrition and allergy and immunology.  Among these are the award-winning Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (Reaktion, 2012) and Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia UP, 2015). Strathclyde website: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/smithmatthewdr/ Personal website: https://www.mattsmithbooks.com/ The article referred to in the interview: https://tinyurl.com/mr2u58w8 Email: m.smith@strath.ac.uk Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute