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Laurence J. Kirmayer (born October 23, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian psychiatrist and internationally recognized expert in culture and mental health. He is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University.[1] He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences[2] and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences)[3]

From 1991 through 2022, he was Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, the official journal of the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus.[4]

From 2021 to 2023, he was President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology[5] of the American Anthropological Association.

Career

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Kirmayer completed undergraduate training in psychology (1971-1974) and in medicine (1974-78) at McGill University and an internship and residency in psychiatry (1978–81) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He is a Principal Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute,[6] and Director of the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

In 1991, he founded the annual McGill Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry.[7] In Canada, he also founded the national Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research,[8] the Cultural Consultation Service,[9] [10] and the online Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre[11][12] which are based at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry of the Jewish General Hospital.

Work

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His work has contributed to the development of culturally responsive services and interventions in primary care mental health and psychiatry.[13] He has conducted research on the impact of culture and social context on common mental disorders (depression, anxiety, somatization, dissociation, and trauma-related disorders), symptom experience, and processes of resilience, healing and recovery among Indigenous peoples, migrants and marginalized groups. His most recent work has applied theories of embodied and enactive cognitive science to understand the social determinants of health and illness experience and resilience.

He has done epidemiological and ethnographic research on the mental health of Indigenous peoples in collaboration with communities and Indigenous scholars.[14] This includes studies on Inuit concepts of mental health and illness,[15][16] risk and protective factors for suicide among Inuit youth,[17] Indigenous concepts of resilience,[18][19] and mental health promotion for Indigenous youth.[20] With Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, he edited the first book integrating social science and clinical perspectives on the mental health of Indigenous peoples in Canada.[21]

Much of his early research concerned somatization,[22] the bodily expression of psychiatric, psychological or emotional distress and medically unexplained symptoms.[23] He clarified several distinct definitions of somatization[24] and conducted clinical and community epidemiological studies of the cognitive and social correlates of somatoform disorders.[25] With sociologist James Robbins, he co-developed the Symptom Interpretation Questionnaire,[26] a measure of somatic symptom attribution that predicts high levels of health care utilization, persistent somatization, hypochondriacal worry, low rates of physician detection of psychosocial distress, and chronicity of fatigue in primary care patients.[27]

He also co-developed the McGill Illness Narrative Interview,[28] a method for eliciting and studying explanatory models and help-seeking, which has been translated into over 15 languages and widely used in global mental health and clinical ethnographic research.[29]

He has worked to translate insights from cultural psychology and anthropology into new approaches to thinking about culture and social context in clinical settings.[30] This includes establishing an innovative Cultural Consultation Service (CCS)[31] to address cultural diversity in mental health care in primary and specialty care sectors. The CCS model has been adopted in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and UK.[32] Analysis of CCS data demonstrated the impact of systematic attention to culture on diagnosis and treatment[33] and contributed to the development of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview.[34] He led workgroups for the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health developing guidelines for the primary care prevent and treatment of common mental health problems.[35] For the Canadian Psychiatric Association, he has led workgroups developing guidelines for training in cultural psychiatry[36] and on cultural issues in the psychiatric training of international medical graduates.[37]

Kirmayer also has made contributions to medical and psychological anthropology and the philosophy of psychiatry.[38] He has collaborated on applying 4-E cognitive science to psychiatry and developing a model of cultural affordances in computational neuroscience.[39][40] He has worked extensively on questions of the cognitive and social process of meaning-making in illness experience, developing theories of metaphoric embodiment and enactment of symptom experience and its ritual and therapeutic transformation.[41][42] Most recently, he has advocated for an integrative ecosocial approach to understanding mental health and illness.[43][44]

Awards

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  • 2021 Judd Marmor Award, for contributions advancing the biopsychosocial model, American Psychiatric Association.[45]
  • 2020 Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research Award, American Family Therapy Academy.
  • 2018 Goffredo Bartocci Special Achievement Award, World Association for Cultural Psychiatry.[46]
  • 2018 AMI-Québec Exemplary Psychiatrist Award.[47]
  • 2016 Walter J. Lonner Distinguished Invited Lecturer, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.[48]
  • 2015 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (Social Sciences Division of the Academy of Social Sciences).[49]
  • 2015 World Association for Cultural Psychiatry Creative Scholarship Award for “Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care.”
  • 2014 Dr. Praful Chandarana Award, Indo-Canadian Psychiatric Association.
  • 2013 Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.[50]
  • 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.[51]
  • 2006 Creative Scholarship Award, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.[51]
  • 2004 Presidential commendation for dedication in advancing cultural psychiatry, Canadian Psychiatric Association.[52]

Bibliography

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His publications include over 400 articles and book chapters as well as several co-edited volumes:

  • Current Concepts of Somatization: Research and Clinical Perspectives, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and James M. Robbins. Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 1991. ISBN 0880481986
  • Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson, & Mark Barad. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0521888409
  • Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. ISBN 9780774815239
  • Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Jaswant Guzder, and Cécile Rousseau. New York: Springer, 2013. ISBN 9781493926923
  • Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson, and Constance A. Cummings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781107032200
  • DSM-5® Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview, edited by Robert Lewis-Fernandez, Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Ladson Hinton, Devon Hinton and Laurence J. Kirmayer. Washington: American Psychiatric Pub, 2015. ISBN 9781585624928
  • Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD. edited by Andreas Maercker, Eva Heim, and Laurence J. Kirmayer. Boston: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH, 2019 ISBN 9781616764975
  • Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models and Applications, edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman, Shinobu Kitayama, Robert Lemelson, and Constance A. Cummings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 1108705960

Lectures

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Video recordings of Kirmayer's lectures in cultural psychiatry are available online[53]

Video interviews as part of an oral history of medical anthropology from Anthropologie et Societé are also available [54][55][56][57][58][59][60]

See also

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References

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  13. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Jarvis, G. Eric (2019). "Culturally responsive services as a path to equity in mental healthcare". HealthcarePapers. 18 (2): 11–23. doi:10.12927/hcpap.2019.25925. PMID 31596698. S2CID 204028942.
  14. ^ "Arctic Council delegates ponder what works best in mental health". Nunatsiaq News. March 30, 2015.
  15. ^ https://www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/files/tcpsych/Report4.pdf
  16. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Fletcher, Christopher; Watt, Robert (2009). Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Valaskakis, Gail g. (eds.). Locating the ecocentric self: Inuit concepts of mental health and illness. UBC Press. pp. 289–314.
  17. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Boothroyd, Lucy J.; Hodgins, S. (1998). "Attempted suicide among Inuit youth: Psychosocial correlates and implications for prevention". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 43 (8): 816–822. doi:10.1177/070674379804300806. PMID 9806088. S2CID 22166295.
  18. ^ "ICIHRP Roots of Resilience Project".
  19. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Dandeneau, S.; Marshall, E.; Phillips, M.K.; Williamson, Karla (2011). "Rethinking resilience from indigenous perspectives". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 56 (2): 84–91. doi:10.1177/070674371105600203. PMID 21333035. S2CID 7549749.
  20. ^ "Listening to One Another to Grow Strong (LTOA): Mental Health Promotion for Indigenous Youth".
  21. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie (2009). Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0774815246.
  22. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Robbins, James M. (1991). Current Concepts of Somatization: Research and Clinical Perspectives. American Psychiatric Press. ISBN 0880481986.
  23. ^ Kirmayer, LJ; Groleau, D; Looper, KJ; Dao, MD (October 2004). "Explaining medically unexplained symptoms". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 49 (10): 663–72. doi:10.1177/070674370404901003. PMID 15560312.
  24. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Robbins, James M. (1991). "Three forms of somatization in primary care: prevalence, co-occurrence, and sociodemographic characteristics". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 179 (1): 647–655. doi:10.1097/00005053-199111000-00001. PMID 1940887. S2CID 46182116.
  25. ^ Kirmayer, L.J.; Young, A. (1998). "Culture and somatization: clinical, epidemiological, and ethnographic perspectives". Psychosomatic Medicine. 60 (4): 420–430. doi:10.1097/00006842-199807000-00006. PMID 9710287. S2CID 35114279.
  26. ^ Robbins, James M.; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (1991). "Attributions of common somatic symptoms". Psychological Medicine. 21 (4): 1029–1045. doi:10.1017/S0033291700030026. PMID 1780396. S2CID 22021905.
  27. ^ Bailer, J; Witthoeft, M.; Bayern, C.; Rist, F. (2007). "Syndrome stability and psychological predictors of symptom severity in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders". Psychological Medicine. 37 (2): 271–281. doi:10.1017/S0033291706009354. PMID 17109778. S2CID 29130212.
  28. ^ Groleau, Danielle; Young, Allan; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2006). "The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI): an interview schedule to elicit meanings and modes of reasoning related to illness experience". Transcultural Psychiatry. 43 (4): 671–691. doi:10.1177/1363461506070796. PMID 17166953. S2CID 20732761.
  29. ^ "McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)". Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry.
  30. ^ Arehart-Treichel, Joan (2004). "Canadian Psychiatrists Confront Cultural-Competency Challenges". Psychiatric News. 39 (22): 1–19. doi:10.1176/pn.39.22.00390001.
  31. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Guzder, Jaswant; Rousseau, Cécile (2014). Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care. New York: Springer. ISBN 9781461476146.
  32. ^ "International Consortium for Cultural Consultation". International Consortium for Cultural Consultation.
  33. ^ Adeponle, Ademola; Thombs, Brett D.; Groleau, Danielle; Jarvis, G. Eric; Kirmayer, Laurence 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. PMID 22302332.
  34. ^ Lewis-Fernandez, Roberto; Aggarwal, Neil Krishan; Hinton, Larson; Hinton, Devon E.; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2016). DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview. American Psychiatric Press. ISBN 9781585624928.
  35. ^ Kirmayer, L. J.; Narasiah, L.; Munoz, M. (2011). "Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 183 (12): E959-67. doi:10.1503/cmaj.090292. PMC 3168672. PMID 20603342.
  36. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Fung, Kenneth; Rousseau, Cécile; Lo, Hung Tat; Menzies, Peter; Guzder, Jaswant; Ganesan, Soma; Andermann, Lisa; MacKenzie, Kwame (2022). "Guidelines for training in cultural psychiatry". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 66 (2): 195–246. doi:10.1177/0706743720907505. PMC 7918872. PMID 32345034. S2CID 141386932.
  37. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Sockalingam, Sanjeev; Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun; Fleisher, William P.; Adeponle, Ademola A.; Bhat, Venkat; Munshi, Alpna; Ganesan, Soma (2018). "International medical graduates in psychiatry: cultural issues in training and continuing professional development". Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 63 (4): 258–280. doi:10.1177/0706743717752913. PMC 5894917. PMID 29630854.
  38. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J.; Crafa, Daina (2014). "What kind of science for psychiatry?". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8: 435. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00435. PMC 4092362. PMID 25071499.
  39. ^ Ramstead, Maxwell; Veissiere, Samuel; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2016). "Cultural affordances: Scaffolding local worlds through shared intentionality and regimes of attention". Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1090. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01090. PMC 4960915. PMID 27507953.
  40. ^ Veissiere, Samuel P.L.; Constant, Axel; Ramstead, Maxwell J.D.; Friston, Karl J.; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2020). "Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43 (e90): e90. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001213. PMID 31142395. S2CID 169038428.
  41. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J. (1992). "The body's insistence on meaning: Metaphor as presentation and representation in illness experience". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 6 (4): 323–346. doi:10.1525/maq.1992.6.4.02a00020.
  42. ^ Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2004). "The cultural diversity of healing: meaning, metaphor and mechanism". British Medical Bulletin. 69 (1): 33–48. doi:10.1093/bmb/ldh006. PMC 3621226. PMID 15226195.
  43. ^ Gómez-Carrillo, Ana; Paquin, Vincent; Dumas, Guillaume; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2023). "Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry". Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. doi:10.3389/fnins.2023.1041433. PMC 9947537. PMID 36845417.
  44. ^ Gómez-Carrillo, Ana; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2023). "A Cultural-Ecosocial Systems View for Psychiatry". Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1031390. PMC 10133725. PMID 37124258.
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