The latest issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is devoted to “Cultures of the Internet” – also the title of the 2011 McGill Advanced Study Institute (ASI) in Cultural Psychiatry at which many of the papers were originally presented. In our introductory essay to the issue, Laurence Kirmayer, Sadeq Rahimi and I examine some of the issues which the Internet and other …
Author Archives: Eugene Raikhel
Conference announcement: The Psy-ences and Mental Health in East Central Europe and Eurasia – April 29–30, 2013, University of Chicago
From the New Socialist Person to Global Mental Health: The Psy-ences and Mental Health in East Central Europe and Eurasia
April 29–30, 2013, University of Chicago
Over the past decades, the professions and disciplines concerned with the human mind, brain and behavior (“the psy-ences”) have undergone significant changes in the countries of East Central Europe and Eurasia. Throughout much …
2012 in review
As 2012 draws to a close, we’d like to thank all of our editors, regular contributors and guests for their hard work on Somatosphere. We had a great year, and without all of your contributions, it wouldn’t have been possible. This year saw the launch of Transcriptions, a forum on HIV/AIDS, global health and the social sciences edited by …
Somatosphere readers: we welcome your contributions!
As we head toward the end of 2012, I’d like to warmly thank all of the regular and guest contributors who have written for the site this year. I’ll be posting a few highlights from 2012 over the next several weeks.
And to our readers: thank you for visiting the site. Please remember that we are always on the lookout …
Global mental health videos
McGill University’s Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, which hosted a conference this summer on global mental health, has started a blog and posted several video interviews with participants from the conference. These are excellent short summaries of particular issues or positions around global mental health, which could very readily be used in a teaching context. In the …
Laurence Kirmayer, “Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health”
In late October my department (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) hosted a talk by Laurence Kirmayer of McGill University. I’m pleased to present the full video of the lecture here. The talk, titled “Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health,” is a broad and synthetic overview of Dr. Kirmayer’s thinking on psychiatry and mental …