Dr. Frederick W Hickling
Dr. Frederick W Hickling, CD, BSC (Anat.), MBBS, DM, FRCPsych(UK), FRSM, DLFAPA
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry Department of Community Health and Psychiatry Executive Director Caribbean Institute of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (CARIMENSA) University of the West Indies
Frederick W. Hickling, CD, BSC (Anat.), MBBS, DM, FRCPsych(UK), FRSM, DLFAPA was born in Jamaica, attended
Wolmers Boys School on a Wolmers Foundation Scholarship (1954-1961), and educated
in medicine and psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He received
specialist training in anatomy at St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, University
of London, and postgraduate training in psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital,
University of Edinburgh. Professor Hickling helped to establish a unique community
psychiatric service and to pioneer cultural therapy in Jamaica in the 1970’s. In the
1980’s he established a private psychiatric research and clinical service in Kingston,
and in the 1990’s he was instrumental in helping to shape policy for African Caribbean
Mental Health in the United Kingdom. With wide international experience in the Caribbean,
North America, the UK and New Zealand, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Head, Section
of Psychiatry, University of the West Indies Mona, from 2000 to 2006, and is presently
Executive Director of the UWI Caribbean Institute of Mental health and Substance Abuse
(CARIMENSA). His research interests are in African Caribbean mental health, schizophrenia,
personality disorder, community psychiatry, psychotherapy, political psychology and
cultural therapy. He has more than 150 articles and book chapters in peer reviewed
journals and books. He is the author and editor of seven books. He was elected a Distinguished
Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2008, a Fellow of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists UK in 2011, and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University
of the West Indies in 2011. He was awarded the Black Psychiatrists of America Andrea
Delgado Award for Excellence in November 2010. He received the Order of Distinction
(Commander) by the Government of Jamaica in August 2012. He is married to Dr. Hilary
Robertson-Hickling PhD, and has four children, Deborah, Daniella, Akindele and Chinua.
