Welcome to the personal
website of
Suman
Fernando
psychiatrist, academic and writer
I
was a consultant
psychiatrist for
over twenty years until
the mid-1990s (took early retirement)
and member of the
Mental
Health Act Commission - a government inspectorate with some teeth at
the time, chairing its National Standing Committee on Race
and Culture. Since then, I have been an academic, a lecturer, a writer and an
advisor on
mental health practice and service provision. Here
is a list of my appointments (click
to see).
I have striven to highlight racism in clinical practice and research;
and in 2017 brought together in a book (Institutional Racim in
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology) personal stories set against a
background of political events in order to explore / explain 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.
For a bit more about me click here
I am now mainly a writer and lecturer (click here for publications), but have been involved in capacity building work in Sri Lanka (click here for more..) and in researching issues around mental health provision in the Global South- click here for a paper written in 2005 and here for another (2009)
I welcome comment on materials (via 'contact us') but please do NOT contact me requesting clinical consulations or medico-legal reports as I do not undertake such work any more.
Note that Inquiry into 'Schizophrenia' (ISL) (CLICK) is being analysed - CLICK HERE to see Preliminary Findings
Master Classes in Mental Health-flyer
Click here for transcript of talk
Click here for transcript of talk
Click here for transcript of talk
Click here for transcript of talk
CLICK HERE to see letter when the journal Nature declined to publish
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