Psychiatrists want to drop ‘Royal’ from college name
'It is not necessary and non-inclusive,' says Professor Patrick McGorry of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is facing internal calls to change its name to lose the “anachronistic” reference to the monarchy.
Professor Patrick McGorry has backed the push, saying its current title is a “reminder of colonial dispossession”.
He says the college should go back to being known as the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, its official name before 1978.
“The prefix was added in an almost cultural cringe type mode back in the late ‘70s because all the other grown-up colleges had it,” he says.
