Welcome to the personal
website of
Suman
Fernando
writer, academic and former psychiatrist
I
was a consultant
psychiatrist for
over twenty years until
the mid-1990s (took early retirement) and for many years chaired the National Standing Committee on Race
and Culture at the Mental Health Act Commission. My work now involves teaching, lecturing, writing and advising on
mental health practice and service provision; and still trying hard to devise practical
ways of dismantling racism in the MH system. For list of appointments (click
to see).
A recent single-author book (2017), Institutional Racim in
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
--- back-stories of real events set against historical / political
background ---explores & explains what
'institutional racism' in the mental health system really means, and
how it impacts on experience of black and other racialised people
caught up in the system. If you want to read /own this book (or any other) but find
it too expesive to buy, email me with a request -- I can help!
I welcome comment on my work (via 'contact us') but please do NOT request clinical consulations or medico-legal reports as I do not undertake such work any
more.
See Videos Page for talks given and films of interest including MASTER CLASSES on a course on Mental
Health, Race and Culture at London Metropolitan University in 2011 (PPTs below)
Class 1: Tradition of Mental
Health and illness; what diversity means
Class 5: Class 5 Movement to reform psychiatry in UK:
How to make effective changes
Inquiry into 'Schizophrenia' (ISL) (CLICK) is now complete - CLICK HERE to see Preliminary Findings
All publications by Suman Fernando and videos belonging to Suman Fernando on this website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Please note that permision for videos are for screening only for non-commercial purposes not for streaming or downloading.
Who am I ?
I used to be a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS and then at the European Cetnre for Migration & Social Care at University of Kent. Now, my main (honorary) attachment is: Emeritus Professor in Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University. More...
A book that addresses 'global mental health is:
Mental health, worldwide; culture, globalization and development
I have some chapters in a new book (festchrift) edited by Roy Moodley and Martha Ocampo (of Toronto)
Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health 2014
My first book (1988) now considered a seminal publication has been re-issued as a classic Click here
