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Lucy Foulkes

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Dr Lucy Foulkes is a psychologist who researches mental health and social development in adolescence. She is currently a senior research fellow at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, an honorary lecturer in psychology at UCL and a research fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of What Mental Illness Really Is (and What It Isn't) and has written for the Guardian, New Scientist and numerous other publications and has been interviewed in The Times, VICE and on the BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind and Start the Week.

Books by Lucy Foulkes

Losing Our Minds

A vital corrective and accessible guide to the science of mental illness

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Coming of Age

The only book you need on adolescence: Coming of Age gets beneath the myths and stereotypes to reveal the real reasons why teens behave as they do - and how we can help them flourish in life

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