Upcoming events
31st Annual Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry聽
May 5 - June 27, 2025
Montreal, QC 2025
Culture, Mind and Brain Workshop
June 18-20, 2025
9:00am - 5:00pm
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 不良研究所
Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry Culture, Mind and Brain聽
Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research () and the 不良研究所 Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives program (www.mcgill.ca/hbhl). This workshop will provide an overview of core topics and recent developments in social, and cultural neuroscience research in order to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration in mental health.聽
Advanced Study Institute
Cultural Configurations of the Self聽
June 25 - 27, 2025聽
Montreal, QC 2025
Past events
Culture, Mind and Brain Workshop
June 19-21, 2023
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 不良研究所
Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry Culture, Mind and Brain聽
Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research () and the 不良研究所 Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives program (www.mcgill.ca/hbhl). This workshop will provide an overview of core topics and recent developments in social, and cultural neuroscience research in order to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration in mental health.聽
Topics will include:聽
- The co-evolution of culture, mind and brain;
- Ecosocial views of the brain;聽
- Cultural affordances and thinking through other minds;聽
- Integrating evolutionary, computational and cultural psychiatry;聽
- Neuroscience of agency and subjectivity;聽
- Developmental neuroscience and brain health;聽
- Social determinants of health in neuroscience research;聽
- Screen time, rewards and the brain;聽
- Affective neuroscience of prejudice and discrimination;聽
- Cities and psychosis;
- Medication and imagination;聽
- Psychedelics Suggestible physiology and placebo science;
- The place of neuroscience in person-centered psychiatry, and;聽
- The future of the brain.聽
罢别虫迟蝉听
Choudhury, S., & Slaby, J. (Eds.). (2016). Critical neuroscience: A handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience. John Wiley & Sons
Kirmayer, L.J., Worthman, C., Kitayama, S., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C. (Eds.) (2020). Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods & Applications. Cambridge.聽
Guest Faculty聽
Axel Constant, University of Sydney
Guillaume Dumas, University of Montreal
Lasana Harris, University College London聽
不良研究所 Faculty聽
V茅ronique Bohbot, Department of Psychiatry
Ian Gold, Departments of Philosophy & Psychiatry
Ana G贸mez-Carrillo, Culture, Mind and Brain Program
Alberto Inserra, Department of Psychiatry
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry
Michael Lifshitz, Culture, Mind and Brain Program
Jay Olson, Department of Psychology
Elizaveta Solomonova, Culture, Mind and Brain Program
Samuel Veissi猫re, Culture, Mind and Brain Program
Ashey Wazana, Department of Psychiatry
Book launch: Culture, Mind, and Brain
September 2020
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new book Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications. The book is available on Amazon or through聽the聽
Culture Mind and Brain flyer
Edited by聽
- Laurence J. Kirmayer
不良研究所, Montr茅al - Carol M. Worthman
Emory University, Atlanta - Shinobu Kitayama
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Robert Lemelson
University of California, Los Angeles - Constance Cummings
The Foundation for Psychocultural Research
Summary
Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure, values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience in our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.
Rethinking Psychosis: Culture, Brain, and Context
January 10-11, 2014
2013 International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium Conference
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
CBDMH Seminar at UCLA by Ian Gold (不良研究所)
March 13, 2013
Psychiatry and Culture: The Case of Delusion
Delusions, as Jaspers remarked, have always been the archetypal symptom of madness. It is surprising, therefore, that contemporary psychiatry has rather little to say about delusions or about the ways in which delusions change with time and culture. In this talk, I make some suggestions about why this is the case. Further, I discuss the changes to psychiatric thinking that are required to better understand delusions and, thereby, psychosis.
New grant for project on Treatment for Psychological Trauma
Duncan Pederson and Alain Brunet together with Hanna Kienzler and Bhogendra Sharma were successful in receiving a Grand Challenges Canada grant to begin work in Nepal. The grant will enable them to pilot a reconsolidation blockade intervention with survivors of torture at the C-VICT centre in Kathmandu. The group will also carry out qualitative interviews with counsellors and survivors documenting narratives of distress.
New Member
Dr. Brandon Kohrt, a psychiatrist anthropologist who has done extensive ethnographic and cultural psychiatric research in Nepal has joined the project to collaborate on work in Nepal.
New Students
- Claire Champigny
- Eli Scheiner
Study of cultural difference in hypnotizability/suggestibility
Amir Raz's student, Eli Sheiner has been doing preliminary research in Japan, interviewing academic researchers about the interaction between culture and hypnotic suggestion. Claire Champigny, also a student of Raz, is studying cross-cultural differences in hynotizability, with a view to developing a pilot study to be conducted with student populations in Singapore.
Folk Psychiatry and Mental Health Literacy
Lauren Ban, former postdoctoral fellow now based at the University of Melbourne, is developing a project to investigate cross-cultural differences in "folk theories" through which ideas of disorder/pathology are filtered. This will be used for a questionnaire and interview study to be done with psychology students in Singapore.
Placebo Workshop
Placebos in the Clinic? Fostering Ethical, Educational, Policy and Practical Consensus
The meeting, Placebos in the Clinic? Fostering Ethical, Educational,聽Policy and Practical Consensus, 聽will bring together prominent placebo聽researchers from diverse fields as well as physicians, policy makers and聽related experts to discuss the realities of using placebos, placebo聽effects and placebo-like treatments in clinical practice.
Date: May 23-24, 2012 | 8:30am - 5:30pm | 不良研究所, Downtown Campus
Mind, Brain & Culture Methods Workshop
This workshop presents the latest advances in a range of experimental聽methodologies from brain imaging with MEG to epigenetics with the goal to聽develop cross-disciplinary investigations of interactions between cultural聽and neurobiological processes.
Date: May 28, 2012 | Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 不良研究所聽University
Critical Neuroscience Workshop
This course provides an overview of recent controversies surrounding聽cognitive neuroscience and the implications of the emerging fields of聽social and cultural neuroscience for psychiatry, industry, policy and聽other areas of social life. It will present key studies in social and聽cultural neuroscience from the last two decades and examine the potentials聽and limitations of predominant methodologies, particularly neuroimaging.聽The course will present the interdisciplinary project of critical聽neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with which to critically聽analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature,聽their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of聽neurocultures since the Decade of the Brain. The course will problematize聽and consider alternatives to neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry,聽neuroethics, cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the聽models, metaphors and political contexts of mainstream brain research. It聽will also explore various avenues for engagement between neuroscience,聽social science and humanities.
This is an interdisciplinary graduate level course and part of the Summer聽School in Transcultural Psychiatry. In-depth knowledge of neuroscience is聽not required but some understanding of neuroimaging research in cognitive聽neuroscience is useful. The course is relevant to neuroscientists聽interested in the social and political implications of their research, as聽well as psychiatrists, mental health workers and medical anthropologists聽interested in the meaning, limits and possibilities of emerging forms of聽"evidence" in biomedical cultures.
Date: May 29 - June 1, 2012
Faculty: Suparna Choudhury, Ian Gold, Eric Jarvis, Laurence Kirmayer,聽Daniel Margulies, Amir Raz, Jan Slaby, Allan Young