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Welcome to the personal website of Suman Fernando, psychiatrist, academic and writer

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Master Classes in Mental Health-flyer

Master Class 1 (5 Oct)

Film Link to vimeo; Click here for ppt slides; Click here for list of references
Click here for transcript of talk

Master Class 2 (19 Oct)

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Click here for transcript of talk

Master Class 3 (2 Nov)

Film link to vimeo; Click here for slides; Click here for references
Click here for transcript of talk

Master Class 4 (16 Nov)

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Master Class 5 (7 Dec postponed from 30 Nov)

Film link to vimeo; Click here for slides; Click here for list of references
Click here for transcript of talk

Master Class 6 (14 Dec)

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I welcome comment on materials (via 'contact us') but please do NOT write to me requesting clinical consulations as I do not undertake such work any more.

I was a consultant psychiatrist (now retired) in the British National Health Service for over twenty years until the mid-1990s. Since then I have been an academic, a writer and an advisor on mental health practice and service provision. I was a member of the Mental Health Act Commission (a government inspectorate) for several years until 1995 where I chaired its National Standing Committee on Race and Culture. I am involved in voluntary organisations (NGOs) providing mental health services for people from minority ethnic ('racialised') groups in the UK and also for people in Sri Lanka. Here is a list of my appointments (click to see).

My main occupation now is in writing, lecturing, teaching and consulting in UK and Canada (click here for publications). I have been involved in capacity building work in Sri Lanka (click here for more..) and in researching issues around mental health and mental health provision in low income countries - click here for a paper written in 2005 and here for another (2009)

Global Mental Health' Movement is very contraversial. if canbe construed as a form of imperialism associated with finding markets for Big pharma. CLICK HERE to see article in Openmind.
CLICK HERE to see letter that he journal Nature declined to publish

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