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Professor Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry/ Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital TCD/Tallaght University Hospital, and UCD Visiting Full Clinical Professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine and Medical Sciences.
In addition to his medical degree (MB BCh BAO), he holds Master’s degrees in epidemiology (MSc), healthcare management (MA), Buddhist studies (MA) and Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MSc); and doctorates in medicine (MD), history (PhD), governance (DGov) and law (PhD). His research interests include mental health legislation, human rights, and the history of psychiatry. He is most interested in the extent to which persons with mental illness participate in civic and social life, and the barriers they and their families face in exercising their rights, including economic and social rights.
He is a prolific author and his most recent books include ‘Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland’ (2016), ‘Mental Illness, Human Rights and the Law’ (2016) and ‘The Doctor Who Sat For A Year’ (2019), Asylum: Inside Grangegorman (2020), In Search of Madness: A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness (2022), Resilience: Lessons from Sir William Wilde on Life After Covid (2023).
