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Towards a Feminist Psychiatry - Professor Linda Gask

October 2025

For The Institute of Mental Health's Centre for Social Futures

Prof Linda Gask, Emerita Professor of primary care psychiatry, University of Manchester

Linda Gask retired from clinical practice in psychiatry in 2013 after training in medicine in Edinburgh and working in the UK National Health Service and at the University of Manchester, where she is now Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry.

She returned to work virtually during COVID to help set up and provide clinical supervision to Greater Manchester Bereavement Support Service.

She has published two memoirs about her personal experience of depression during and after her work as a psychiatrist, ’The Other Side of Silence’ and ‘Finding True North’. Her latest book is ‘Out of Her Mind: how we are failing women’s mental health and what must change’.

Her website is lindagask.com