Dr Michael First: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- psychiatrist and professor at Columbia University
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“"It'd be nice to be able to look at this and say: 'Oh, based upon this paper, I should pick this one because of this.' That would be doing the field a real service," he said. "But there's simply not enough information here."”
Where Dr Michael First has been quoted
- New study casts doubt on reliability of mental health diagnosis interviewstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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