Prof. Femi Oyebode
Prof. Femi Oyebode
About Me
Studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, graduating with distinction in 1977. He trained as a psychiatrist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham since 1999. He has published over 225 original papers & 23 book chapters. His books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry, Madness at the Theatre, Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind- Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology 4-7th editions (translated into Arabic, Estonia, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, & Spanish), Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes, and Doppelgänger: analysing doubles across antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience.
He is a published poet, and his volumes include Wednesday is a Colour, Master of the Leopard Hunt, & Indigo, Camwood and Mahogany Red. He is joint presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Series, Is Psychiatry Working? He was Chief Examiner RCPsych 2002-2005. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016 and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (the highest honour of the RCPsych) in 2019. He was a judge of the Hippocrates Poetry Prize in 2015 & of the World Psychiatric Association Jean Delay Prize in 2023. He delivered the Osuntokun Memorial Lecture University of Ibadan in 2009, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ President’s Lecture in 2021, the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Lecture in 2022, & the Tow Tiang, Seng Distinguished Lecture, Yeo Boon Kim Mind Centre Singapore in 2024. He has been Visiting Professor at University of Ibadan, University of Kuwait, University of Western Australia, & University of Auckland.
