‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’

Vanessa Cameron was the Chief Executive Officer for the Royal College of Psychiatrists for nearly 4 decades. She offered [the above] candid reflection on her retirement in 2016. Her full reflection was published in the Psychiatric Bulletin and can be read in full here.

2022: The website of  the Royal College of Psychiatrists offers this summary:

This research and commentary published in the BMJ, 8 October 2022, also considers public health:


The following material was published amidst the 5-year-long-industry-sponsored ‘Defeat Depression Campaign’:

Lay people’s attitudes to the Defeat Depression Campaign, BMJ, 1996:

Response to concerns about the Defeat Depression Campaign, Psychiatric Bulletin, September 1994: