Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration

This book unravels the mental health challenges of the migrants and the socio economic and cultural conditions that bear on the mental well being. In addition, it covers the measures of intervention that can help the migrants maintain or restore their mental well being. Research included in the book is timely given that there is ever increasing mobility of people which on one hand has led to better livelihoods, but on the other has created conditions of stress for the migrants and their families. As migrants are often found to be hesitant of using the health care facilities in the new place which may be due to the lack of awareness, this book elaborates on the health care facilities, cost issues, stigma, and several other factors.

Professor Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College, London. He was Dean (Lead Educational Officer) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2003-2008) and then President of the Royal College (2008-2011). He was Vice-Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges with remit for education for doctors of all grades and specialities. During this period he led on College’s campaign for Fair Deal for people with mental illness. He established strategy for public mental health. As President of the World Psychiatric Association he led on development of 20 Position statements and various other initiatives including Bill of Rights for people with mental illness (signed by 60 organisations) and a campaign for social justice for people with mental illness to support this. As President of the BMA (2018-2019) he led on a large survey of mental health and well-being of medical students globally, a campaign for equity between physical and mental health and Medicine’s social contract. So far, he is the only British Asian for having been President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the World Psychiatric Association. He chaired the Board of Trustees of Mental Health Foundation (2011-2014) and is on the Boards of Psychiatry Research Trust and Sane charities. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. In 2017 he was placed #1 in public sector professionals in FT-Outstanding Awards. In 2018, he was voted international Global Champion on mental health in an international poll.  He has published widely with over 500 papers, 175 chapters, edited and written 37 books three of which have been translated into Japanese and Chinese and two have won awards. In 2019 two of his books were shortlisted in the BMA psychiatry book of the year award. Appointed CBE, he has been awarded 10 honorary degrees from international universities. He continues to champion the cause of people with mental illness.

Driss Moussaoui was the founder and chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca from 1979 to 2013. He was also director of the Casablanca WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health from 1992 to 2013.

He was president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He edited or co-edited 10 books and published more than 150 papers in international journals.

He founded with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Executive Committee the Jean Delay Prize (1999) and is the scientific director of the WPA series "International Anthologies of Classic Psychiatric Texts" (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Russian is in preparation).

Driss Moussaoui is past-president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP, 2010-2013) and member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is World Psychiatric Association and WASP Honorary Member.

He is currently president of the International Federation for Psychotherapy (2018-2022)

Antonio V. Ventriglio Based in Foggia, Italy, Dr. Ventriglio is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist at “Riuniti” Hospital in Foggia, Italy. He is professor of psychopharmacology and social psychiatry at the School of Psychiatry in Foggia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia. He has been research fellow in the Department of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; completed two Ph.D. programs on medical, clinical, and experimental sciences at the University of Foggia. He is currently member of the Italian Society of Psychiatry, Italian Society for Social Psychiatry, and honorary member of World Psychiatry Association. Dr. Ventriglio is editor for letters for the International Journal of Social Psychiatry; editorial board member of the International Review of Psychiatry, Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, Current Drug Research Review, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Neurosciences; and editor of books for Oxford University Press and Springer Nature.

Professor Rachel Tribe is an active clinician, researcher, consultant and trainer .  She is a trustee of two international mental health charities.  Professor Tribe has published extensively in the area of migration and mental health. With colleagues she developed a mental health and wellbeing portal for refugees, asylum-seekers and health and social care professionals, https://www.uel.ac.uk/Schools/Psychology/Research/Refugee-Mental-Health-and-Wellbeing-Portal.  Her clinical interests focus on all aspects of trauma, culture and mental health, professional and ethical practice, working with interpreters and bicultural workers in mental health, migration and mental health, older adults, social justice and organisational development. She has consulted to and worked with a range of humanitarian organisations ina number of countries.  Her work has global reach and has had  an impact in a number of countries.