Background and Research
Healy was born in Raheny, Dublin. He completed an MD in neuroscience and studied psychiatry during a clinical research fellowship at Cambridge University Clinical School. In 1990, Healy became a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at North Wales and in 1996 became a Reader in Psychological Medicine. He became a Professor a couple of years ago. His current research interests at Cardiff University include: cognitive functioning in affective disorders and psychoses as well as circadian rhythms in affective disorders, recovery in psychoses and physical health of people with mental illness.
He also heads the psychiatric inpatient unit at Bangor, North Wales, where treatments include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychiatric medication. Healy has authored a number of books and is an expert on the history and development of psychopharmacology. He co-authored a book, History of Convulsive Therapy with Edward Shorter. Healy’s work, particularly his histories of psychopharmacology, influenced Charles Barber's book Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation.
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