Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry

Review

"Kudos and congratulations to Professors Bhugra, Moussaoui, Craig, and all the authors for a terrific, well-timed textbook on such an important, critical area of psychiatry." -- Michelle B. Riba, Journal of Psychiatric Practice

About the Author

Dinesh Bhugra, Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London, UK,Driss Moussaoui, Professor Emeritus, Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco,Tom J Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), UKProfessor Dinesh Bhugra, Past- President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), and Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London. He has published widely with several books winning awards and going into multiple editions and translated into Japanese and Mandarin. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won BMA Book of the Year award in 2019 and Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended. Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry. He is also on the board of several charities and chairs DocHealth charity.Professor Driss Moussaoui is Professor Emeritus at Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco.Professor Tom J Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry King's College London and Past President World Association of Social Psychiatry (2013-16). He qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham, UK. Appointed as Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 with his clinical base in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services including residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill people, services for first episode psychosis, and psychosocial interventions including computer-based AVATAR therapy for auditory hallucinations.