Dr. Raj Persaud, famed for his appearances on the television chat show This Morning and BBC's Radio 4, admitted plagiarizing other's work in a book, "From The Edge of The Couch."
The doctor has admitted copying the work of two foreign academics for five articles he wrote for publications including the British Medical Journal and The Independent.
Persaud claimed that he in a confused mental state at the time because of the pressure of juggling his National Health Service and media work. He said that at the time he believed he had sufficiently acknowledged other authors' work and denied being dishonest.
Following a newspaper investigation in 2006, Persaud was accused of plagiarizing material for his book as large sections of prose, apparently written by him, were actually the work of other authors.
Persaud, a visiting Gresham Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, told the British newspaper The Scotsman that he made "some serious errors" and said he "deeply regretted" not using quotation marks to denote copied work in his book.
Persaud is currently employed as a consultant psychiatrist for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Married to an eye surgeon and with two children, the doctor has published more than 100 papers for journals and five books, which have sold more than 143,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.
