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Book SynopsisSAMI TIMIMI is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire and avisitingProfessor at Lincoln University, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to child and adolescent mental health and has published articleson many topics including eating disorders, psychotherapy, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He hasauthored three books, Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood, (Brunner-Routledge, 2002); Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture,(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); Mis-Understanding ADHD: The Complete Guide for Parents to Alternatives to Drugs,(AuthorHouse, 2007),andhas co-edited with Dr Begum Maitra, Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, (Free AssociationBooks, 2006).JONATHAN LEO, Ph.D.is Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University. He has publishednumerous articles about the biological theories of m