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

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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: [e-mail] Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute