Dr Humphrey Needham-Bennett 

Dr  Humphrey Needham-Bennett MBBS, FRCPsych is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

He is both a general and forensic psychiatrist.  He sits as a medical member on the First-tier Mental Health Tribunal, works as a CQC Second-Opinion Doctor and is a partner in Needhams Medical LLP, providing psychiatric medico-legal reports.

Dr Needham-Bennett’s work over more than three decades spans the independent sector and the NHS where he spent fifteen years as a consultant at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.  

He is a published author, writing under the pen-name Dr Ben Cave. His first book, What We Fear Most – A Psychiatrist’s Journey to the Heart of Madness, is published by Seven Dials, an imprint of Orion. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.