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Dr. Laurence Kirmayer was interviewed by Dr. Sofie Bäärnhielm, Director, Transkulturellt Centrum, Stockholms läns landsting, Stockholm February 2012. Background Reading: Adeponle, A. B., Thombs, B. D., Groleau, D., Jarvis, E., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Using the cultural formulation to resolve uncertainty in diagnoses of psychosis among ethnoculturally diverse patients. Psychiatric Services, 63(2), 147-153. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100280 […]
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Ali Mohamud on the Opening Doors Project in Toronto Initiated in 2009 by the Toronto branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, The Opening Doors Project is a Train-the-Trainer project designed to promote strengthened participation of immigrants and refugees in civil society. It does this by offering skills and work experience to newcomers living with […]
Initiated in 2009 by the Toronto branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, The Opening Doors Project is a Train-the-Trainer project designed to promote strengthened participation of immigrants and refugees in civil society. It does this by offering skills and work experience to newcomers living with mental health issues. These individuals are called Peer Trainers […]
The MMHRC is looking for a part-time summer intern to work in our office at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. The work will involve researching organizations that deal with mental health for Canadians of diverse backgrounds and marketing our website to relevant organizations and communities. The position would suit a student in marketing or […]
VIDEO “The whole trajectory of development is shaped by cultural expectations” Dr. Jaswant Guzder, head of Child Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital discusses the influence of culture in her work with families. In her practice, she often encounters children and parents negotiating between two cultures, a Western one which often emphasizes individualism and the […]
There are many pressures when resettling in a new country: the stress of immigration, the search for employment, getting recognition for training undertaken in another country, and dealing with a new language and culture. Inpsired by a 2005 study conducted by Dr. Cantor-Graae that found that immigrants have a 2-3 times higher chance than the average population […]
“Depression questionnaires were never set up for the world’s population. They were set up in the West,” says Denise St Arnault, professor in the University of Michigan School of Nursing. For decades researchers have shown the degree to which there is cultural variation in the experience of mental illness, and yet clinicians continue to mostly […]
Traditionally seen as a remission of symptoms, there has been a growing group of academics and people with lived experience with mental illness advocating for a new definition of recovery and a distinction between recovery and cure. In this podcast, Rob Whitley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and Researcher at […]
The work done by the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research was featured in the Fall edition of JGH News, a publication of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Laurence Kirmayer founded the Network 15 years ago. Since then it has grown from a provincial to a national organization with ties to researchers around the [...]
In this podcast, the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit team speaks to Dr. Laurence Kirmayer about culture, psychiatry and the intersectional possibilities between traditional western medicine and local cultural practices in regards to healing techniques.