"We are now medicalising people who in previous generations would have been considered normal"
Alastair Santhouse is a consultant psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience at Guy's Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital in London. From 2013 to 2017, he served as Vice Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry. Santhouse also served as the President of the Psychiatry Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. His clinical work focuses on the often overlooked intersection of physical and mental health.
Santhouse is also the author of No More Normal: Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis, which explores how the concept of "normal" has evolved as mental health discussions have moved from consulting rooms to the public sphere. He advocates for reducing the medicalization of everyday human experiences and reevaluating the expansion of diagnostic criteria.
"Santhouse is an intensely sympathetic physician." ― Times Literary Supplement