An Essential Humanity: Dr Bipin Ravindran on Culture, Epistemology, and Trauma

Dr Bipin Ravindran is a Senior Staff Specialist in Adult Psychiatry with the Hunter New England Mental Health Service, as well as a Conjoint Lecturer and PhD candidate in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He trained in medicine in Fune, India and in psychiatry at the Seth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M Hospital, Mumbai, graduating in 2005. His clinical and academic roles include his work as an Inpatient and Community based Adult Psychiatrist, working with persons from refugee and culturally diverse backgrounds, and teaching social and cultural psychiatry. In this interview, Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen asked Dr Ravindran about his work as a clinician and as an academic, how he understands trauma from various disciplinary standpoints, and the experience of working with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds.