David Healy studied at the University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, where he was Clinical Research Associate in Psychiatry from 1986-1990. He is now Reader in Psychological Medicine and Visiting Professor at the University of Wales College of Medicine and Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He has been Director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine since 1992 and has served as the Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. He is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and 12 books including The Antidepressant Era , The Creation of Psychopharmacology and Psychiatric Drugs Explained, Fourth Edition .