Ezra Griffith

Ezra Griffith, M.D., University of Strasbourg, 1973, is Professor of Psychiatry and of African–American Studies. He has broad consultation experience in mental health service systems and has written extensively in the areas of cultural and forensic psychiatry. He has recently focused on the use of narrative in portraying the individual black life in the psycho–social context of the Caribbean. His latest books are: Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce and I’m Your Father, Boy, a family memoir of Barbados. He is currently working on a book about the Spiritual Baptist Church, an indigenous religious group in the Caribbean that took root in Barbados about 50 years ago.