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Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

Race Matters in Mental Health

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Authors:
  1. Suman Fernando

    1. London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

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  • Traces the history of racism in Western psychiatry and psychology
  • Focuses on racism in clinical research, theory, and practice in the twentieth-century through the present day
  • Appeals to scholars in the fields of ethnicity and critical race studies, mental health, psychology, and psychiatry, as well as mental health practitioners and educators
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contemporary Black History (CBH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 1-10
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  3. How ‘Race’ Began, and the Emergence of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 11-37
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  4. Race Thinking and Racism Become the Norm

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 39-58
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  5. New Racisms Appear in the 1960s

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 59-90
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  6. Racism in a Context of Multiculturalism

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 91-110
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  7. Struggle Against Racism in the UK

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 111-134
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  8. Persistence of Racism Through White Power

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 135-152
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  9. Racism Post-9/11

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 153-179
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  10. Racism with the Advent of Trump and After Brexit

    • Suman Fernando
    Pages 181-191
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  11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-209
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About this book

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded system. Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, he examines how the system has shifted in response to new forms of racism which have emerged since the 1960s, highlighting the widespread pathologization of black people, the impact of Islamophobia on clinical practice after 9/11, and various struggles to reform. Engaging and accessible, this book makes a compelling case for the entrenchment of racism across all aspects of psychiatry and clinical psychology, and calls for a paradigm shift in both theory and practice.

Reviews

“The skillful blend of personal and professional reflections with careful historical analysis makes this a gripping and scholarly text. It should be compulsory reading for all psychiatry and clinical psychology trainees—because ‘race in mental health matters.’” (Nimisha Patel, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of East London, UK)

“Dr. Fernando’s reflections on his fifty years of involvement with mental health in post-war multicultural Britain cast an unforgiving light on this sector’s failure to confront its own racist assumptions. It makes for uncomfortable reading, but it is a history that we urgently need to understand if we are not to continue repeating it.” (David Ingleby, Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“Dr. Fernando goes straight to the heart of the issue of racism in the UK and the USA. His evidence for racism being alive and well is documented with pithy historical and personal vignettes. It is a joy to have a credible source to tackle such sensitive issues such as racism.” (Carl C. Bell, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

    Suman Fernando

About the author

Suman Fernando is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

  • Book Subtitle: Race Matters in Mental Health

  • Authors: Suman Fernando

  • Series Title: Contemporary Black History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62728-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62727-4Published: 22 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87380-0Published: 11 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62728-1Published: 08 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 209

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Science, History of Medicine, Imperialism and Colonialism, Sociology of the Body, History of Psychology

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