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The UK’s leading expert in psychiatry Professor Tom Burns describes the ideological battleground surrounding psychiatry and explains why psychiatry is essential to explaining ourselves. Burns says that psychiatry is a polemical battleground – an instrument of social control or barbaric practice on one hand, and potentially a lasting solution to mental illness on the other. Burns reviews the history of psychiatry and says that, for all its flaws, it represents our best attempts to relieve human suffering.

Burns is professor of social psychiatry at the University of Oxford and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles.