Talk given at a virtual conference of DGPNIN, German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, held in Berlin on 26 – 28 November 2020 and presented on 28 November
Social and cultural issues in England
Social construction of 'race'
Historical context of Psychiatry
History of Melancholia as Illness
Cross-cultural variation of depression
Traditions of Western Psychiatry and Psychology
Culture and 'Mind'
Ideals of mental health
Liberation / Therapy
Concept of schizophrenia
Racism in the 19th Century
Racist discourse in modern time
Video of a discussion with Suman Fernando recorded on 7th July 2012 following a presentation at the Advanced Study Institute Workshop held at the McGill Summer Program in Social & Cultural Psychiatry at Montreal.
Racial and Cultural issues in England
Official reports
Delivering Race Equality (DRE) and why it failed
Barriers to systemic change
Guiding principles in Scottish Mental Health Act
Paradigm shift may be unrealistic
Changes in legal framework
New approaches and shifting models
Video is on my old Website but does not always work!
Changes in professional training
Problems of cross-cultural international research
WHO IPSS Study; five year outcomes
Universal definitions of mental health
Healing systems in Sri Lanka
Recent publications Some recent papers
Home-grown System
Building mental health services in Developing Countries
Projects in Sri Lanka
Innovative developments in the statutory sector
Bottom-up development
Extending from social care into mental health
Stakeholders for developing mental health services in the community
Problems of being culturally sensitive
Institutional Racism
Blackwood Inquiry Report
Impediments to change
Transcultural psychiatry
Diagnostic misperceptions
Machinery of psychiatry in context
Psychiatric Diagnoses
Can the concept of schizophrenia last?
Cross-cultural variation of depression
Diagnosis, loss for liberty / compulsory treatment
Mental health for all
Talk given to West End Primary Care Network of Central & West End Primary Care Network NHS Trust on 5 November 2020.
Talk given by Suman Fernando at McGill University July 2012.
Talk by Suman Fernando at a seminar organised by livpsych (a group of medical students in Liverpool) and McPinn Foundation held virtually on.
The DyoNises Theatre from the Madness Hotel and Spa a collaborative theatre and arts collective working inside the oldest Brazilian Hospice, Pedro II Psychiatric Centre, named after the revolutionary psychiatrist Nise de Silveira who started working in this hospital in the 1940's showing striking clinical results through creative expression in severe mental illness.
The DyoNises Theatre from the Madness Hotel and Spa a collaborative theatre and arts collective working inside the oldest Brazilian Hospice, Pedro II Psychiatric Centre, named after the revolutionary psychiatrist Nise de Silveira who started working in this hospital in the 1940's showing striking clinical results through creative expression in severe mental illness.
Teatro Como Cura rotinas do Teatro de DyoNises, Hotel e Spa da Loucura, Rio de Janeiro
Discourse delivered at the 6th Global Mental Health Conference online hosted by CARIMENSA and the Jamaican Psychiatric Association on February 20, 2021.