Dinesh Bhugra
Summary

Welcome to my web site. The site summarises my work and links to some related resources.

Having been Dean from 3 July 2003, I took over as the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 2 July 2008. Do contact me if you have any questions on my work or role within the college or go to the Royal College of Psychiatrists web site for College information.

I am Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, England. I specialise in the following areas of social psychiatry:

  • Psychosexual medicine
  • Cross-cultural psychiatry
  • Professionalism in psychiatry
  • Decision making by psychiatrists and patients
  • Depression
  • Schizophrenia
  • Pathways into psychiatric care
  • Deliberate self-harm
  • Primary Care
From October to December 2000 I explored the portrayal of mental illness in Hindi cinema under a Wellcome Trust fellowship.

If you have any questions on my work which are not answered by these web pages, please feel free to e-mail me.

Contact details:

  Mail: PO Box 25, HSPRD
Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London)
De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AF
  Telephone: (44) (0)20 7848 0500
  Fax: (44) (0)20 7848 0333
  E-mail: dinesh@dineshbhugra.net