Stories in TV drama series about psychiatry were researched in detail

EDITOR—Persaud complains that Channel 4's drama series Psychos “does not hit a realistic note”; he goes on to comment that “the respect accorded to the senior doctors made me wonder where in the NHS the series had been researched.”1 As a psychiatric “consultant” to Psychos I know that the writer of the series shadowed several psychiatrists, including one working in …