Sergio Javier Villaseñor Bayardo

Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico; Psychiatrist at the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Service at Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde; Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, former-President and Founding Member of The Latin American Group of Transcultural Studies, former-President of the WACP (2015-2018). Founder of the Ethnopsychiatric Section of the Mexican and the Latin American Psychiatric Association. Chair of the Transcultural Psychiatry  section of the World Psychiatric Association.

Graduated from the University of Guadalajara, School of Medicine; Specialized in Psychiatry, under the direction of Pr. José Luis Patiño, at Hospital Fray Bernardino Alvarez, Mexico City; trained in consultation-liaison psychiatry at the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry and at L’hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France. Studied Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the EHESS of Paris, where he obtained his Ph.D. Pupil of Jean Garrabé and Yves Pélicier.

Currently working on different lines of research: Cultural Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology and Psychopharmacology.

Has participated in the Editorial Boards of several journals.

Has published 25 books, 41 book chapters and 86 articles in Mexican and international journals. Has lectured in more than 325 events.

Prize 2017 of L’Évolution Psychiatrique for his book: Vers Une Ethnopsychiatrie Mexicaine.