Nota Biográfica: Suman Fernando
Suman Fernando
Education: Secondary education in Colombo, Sri Lanka;
BA in natural sciences, University of Cambridge; doctor of medicine, University
of Cambridge; fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Career 2000-present: honorary professor in faculty of
social sciences and humanities, London Metropolitan University; 2007-11:
consultant to trauma and global health programme co-ordinated by McGill
University, Montreal; 1998-11: senior lecturer in mental health, University of
Kent; 1969-94: consultant psychiatrist, Chase Farm hospital; 1961-69:
psychiatrist at various mental health hospitals in London.
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 - 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).
In 2017 I 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. Prior to that I had
written and lecutred on issues of race and culture in MH services.
Books
(2002) Mental Health, Race and Culture, second edition,
Palgrave, Basingstoke. ISBN 0-333-96026-2(pbk)
(2003) Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry. The
Struggle Against Racism. Brunner-Routledge, Hove andNew York. ISBN
1-58391-252-5 (hbk); 1-58391-253-3 (pbk)
(2009) (edited jointly with Frank Keating) Mental Health in
a Multi-ethnic Society. A Multidisciplinary Handbook. Second Edition.
Routledge, Hove and New York. ISBN 978-0-415-41486-9 (hbk); 978-0-415-41487-9
(pbk).
(2010) Mental Health, Race and Culture. Third Edition,
Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN-10:023021271-9; ISBN-978-0-23021271-8
(pbk)
(2014) Mental Health Worldwide; culture, globalization and
development. Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke.ISBN-978-1-137-32958-5
(2018) (edited jointly with
Roy Moodley).Global Psychologies. Mental Health and the Global South.
Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN
978-1-349-95936-5
