Peter Tyrer

Peter Tyrer is Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College, London and Consultant in Transformation Psychiatry in Lincolnshire. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow and Honorary Fellow (by Distinction) of he Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is still actively working and developing new approaches to chronic mental disorders. He has previously published 624 original articles and 41 books, mainly for specialist readers but sometimes for the general public. His latest book, Poleaxed, written about a viral epidemic in 1967 was written before the coronavirus pandemic. Millie & Oscar Go Loco is his first book for children, with the main characters based on his own grandchildren.