Dr. Alex Curmi

Consultant Psychiatrist, Host of "The Thinking Mind Podcast"

MD, MRCPsych

Dr. Alex Curmi is a Malta-trained, London-based consultant psychiatrist at Psychiatry UK. He completed his core and higher psychiatric training at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust — the same institution that produced the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines this calculator is built on — and is currently completing psychotherapy training at the Metanoia Institute. He is the founding host of The Thinking Mind Podcast, an in-depth show on psychiatry, psychotherapy and the philosophy of mental health that ranks in the top 5% of podcasts globally. He has spoken at length with the leading clinical and academic voices on deprescribing antidepressants — including Dr. Mark Horowitz, lead author of the foundational Horowitz & Taylor (2019) Lancet Psychiatry paper that proposed hyperbolic tapering and Prof. David Taylor (joint author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines). Dr. Curmi has written for The Guardian on psychology, decision-making and mental health. He advises Claro on the patient experience of the tapering calculator, the methodology page, the 'Is this normal?' symptom validator, and the framing of shared decision-making with prescribers.