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Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Culture and Community Mental Health Rounds

Academic Year

*indicates lecture recording available

2023

Date Speaker Title
January 26 Sadeq Rahimi, PhD The Hauntology of Everyday Life: Iranian Revolutions Between Messianic Justice and Nostalgic Desire

2022

Date Speaker Title
December 8 Marc Winz, PhD* Urban stress and physiological arousal in early psychosis: a biosocial approach
October 13 Les Sabiston, PhD “He has the ‘look’”: The social meanings and political effects of an FASD diagnosis
March 17 Patrick Bieler*

Urban mental health beyond social relationships? Encountering as a heuristic for co-laborative interdisciplinary engagements between anthropology and psychiatry

March 10

Roy Richard Grinker, PhD*

Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

February 24 Grégoire Hervouet-Zeiber, PhD

“Finding Oneself in Civilian Life”: The Homeless Laughter of a Veteran of the Second Chechen War

2021

Date Speaker Title

December 9

Rasmus Birk, PhD

“This city is not doable anymore”: On psychological ecologies and ‘idioms of urban distress’ in Southeast London

April 22

Michele Lancione, PhD*

Planning as dispossession: Abstracting race & class through the ‘bloc’

April 1

Aidan Seale-Feldman, PhD

“The World is Like This”: Life, Loss, and the Trembling Thought of Disaster

March 25

Emily Ng, PhD

Walking the Chairman’s Path: Spirit Mediumship and Psychopolitical Transmission

February 4

Tomas Matza, PhD*

Between Politics and Policy: Psychic Life as an Object of Intervention in Russia and El Salvador
January 28 Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD Harmonizing cultural psychiatry & social medicine in a clinical case formulation

2020

Date Speaker 

Title

December 10

Alexander Rödlach, PhD, SVD

Improving Emotional Health in the Community: Health Ministries in Faith Communities

November 19

Ido Hartogsohn, PhD

Media as Drugs: A Cultural Perspective on Digital Media Addiction

October 15

Pierre Minn, PhD

Haitian Psychiatry at the Crossroads

September 17

Neely Laurenzo Myers, PhD*

“Pathways Through Care: ´Madness´, Moral Agency and Mental Health Recovery”

 


 

Cambodians’ Use of Buddhist Techniques to Recover from Trauma

Devon E. Hinton, M.D., Ph.D. 

Friday, February 8, 2013; 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

 


 

An exploration of how film portrays psychopathology: The depiction of PTSD in Waltz with Bashir

Ahmed Hankir

January 31, 2013; 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

 


 

Schizophrenia: Does Talk of Genes and Brains Really Stop a Mother's Blame

Felicity Callard

November 30, 2012; 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

 


 

WHO’s Work on Mental Health During and After Emergencies

Mark van Ommeren, Ph.D.

July 20, 2012; 3:00 - 4:00 PM

 


 

Culture, Suicide and Social Conditions in Aboriginal Communities: A Social Network Approach

Kirk Dombrowski, Ph.D.

April 26, 2012; 3:30 - 5:00 PM

 


 

Acculturation Processes Among Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Adolescents and Adults: What Research Can Tell Us About the Ecology of Refugee Lives

Edison J. Trickett, Ph.D.

March 29, 2012; 3:30 - 4:00 PM

 


 

How Useful is the Capabilities Approach in Global Mental Health?

Lynne Friedli, Ph.D.

February 17, 2012; 3:30 - 5:00 pm

 


 

Synergy and Healing: Insights from Indigenous Peoples

Richard Katz, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, First Nations University of Canada

Adjunct Professor, Psychology, University of Saskatchewan

January 26, 20123:30 - 5:00 pm

 


 

Aboriginal Resilience Lecture Series

February 13, 2009: Dr. Les Whitbeck [.pdf]


 

November 2007

Cultural Therapy & Reasonable Accomodation

Applying the method of cultural therapy to the issue of reasonable accomodation in Quebec

Cultural Therapy & Reasonable Accomodation [.pdf]


 

October 25, 2007

Film Premiere & Discussion with Diane Wolkstein

Film Premiere & Discussion with Diane Wolkstein: A Storyteller's story

Diane Wolkstein: A Storyteller's Story [.pdf]


 

Building Bridges Between Community Organizations and Mental Health Professionals

Tamara Kater, Director: Multi Caf Community Cafeteria

And Food Bank

Discussants: Dr L. J. Kirmayer & Ms. Judy Malik

May 14, 1999; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Rape: A Crime of War

Discussants:

J. Malik & M. Shermarke

July 16, 1999; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Hear What We Are Saying

A documentary on:

Women, racism and the mental health system

Discussants:

Jaswant Guzder& Radhika Santhanam

October 15, 1999; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Dilemmas of Ethnic Match: Minority origin professionals in health and social services

Speaker: Dr. Morton Weinfeld

Professor of Sociology and Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies, McGill University

Discussant: Jaswant Guzder, M.D.

November 12, 1999; 12:30 - 2:00

 


War is Not A Game

A CCVT (Canadian Center for Victims of Torture)

film on the effects of organized violence

Discussant: Patricia Foxen, Anthropologist

December 10th, 1999; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Organized Violence

Speakers:

Pierre Dongier, M.D.
Director of the Clinic Santé-Accueil, CLSC Côte-des-Neighes
Member of RIVO

Angelica Marin-Liva, Coordinator of RIVO

January 14th, 2000; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Interventions in Intercultural Situations: A Training Model

Speaker: Kalpana Das,

Co-founder and Director of the Intercultural Institute of Montreal

February, 11th, 2000; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Broken Promises

A National Film Board & Nutaaq Media

film on the effects of relocation on a group of Inuit families

Discussant:

Patricia Tassinari, Filmmaker

March 10th, 2000; 12:30 - 2:00

 


Working Like Crazy

A National Film Board of Canada and Skyworks
film on the struggles and victories of psychiatric survivors
working in a survivor-run business

Discussant:
Gwynne Basen, Filmmaker

Friday, April 14th, 2000
12:30 - 2:00

 


Culture, Infancy and Research in South Africa

Dr. Tomlinson will discuss his work on the mother-infant
research project in a context of extreme socio-economic
adversity in a settlement near Cape Town.

Discussant:
Mark Tomlinson, Director of Child Guidance Clinic
Capetwon, South Africa

Friday, July 28th, 2000
12:30 - 2:00

 


The Return of the Dybbuk: A Cast Study of Spirit Possession in Contemporary Israel

Discussant:
Yoram Bilu, Professor
Department of Anthropology
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Friday, September 15th, 2000
12:30 - 2:00

 


If the Family Fits: A National Film Board of Canada documentary

Explores traditional notions of family as voiced by
R.E.A.L. Women, a Canadian lobby group,
versus an alternate family lifestyle when
a spouse declares a bisexual orientation

Discussant:
Patricia Kearns, Film Producer and Director
Guest:
Dan Delaney

Friday, November 17th, 2000
12:30 - 2:00

 


Encounters of the Three-Way Kind: Working with Interpreters in Mental Health Settings

During this session, video-vignettes of interpreters
interacting with mental health professionals and
patients will be used to launch a discussion of the
use of interpreters in the clinical setting. There
will be an examination of the mental health interpreter's
role and of challenges interpreters and clinicians face.
Suggestions will be provided as to actions clinicians can
take to improve communication in interpreter-mediated encounters.

Speaker:
Heather Clarke, Coordinator of the Multiculturalism Program,
Montreal Children's Hospital

Friday, January 12th, 2001
12:30 - 2:00

 


Political and Psychiatric Ambiguities in the Baltic States: From Neurasthenia to Depression

Independence for the Baltic States has led to
change in all areas of social life: not only political
and economic but also medical and psychiatric. The Soviet
system of medicine provided a large number of psychosomatic
diagnoses, among them neurasthenia, which were not stigmatized.
Although many patients felt that the doctor's emphasis on
physical symptoms did not capture the essence of what was
wrong and neglected the intimate relationship between
biographical experience and subsequent illness nevertheless
there was ready access to the sick role. West European and
Scandinavian influences have led to massive restructuring
of the health care delivery system, less autonomy for the
patient, and a different set of diagnoses. Depression has
replaced neurasthenia but does not carry with it the same
set of privileges. My presentation looks at how patients
articulate their ill health in terms of a continuing
dialogue with the past.

Speaker:
Dr. Vieda Skultans, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol

Friday, February 9th, 2001
12:30 - 2:00

 


A partir d'un cas clinique en Abitibi ­ une approche écologique du "Mental"?

Discussant:
Jean-Dominique Leccia, Psychiatrist
Guest:
Dan Delaney

Friday, March 23rd, 2001
12:30 - 2:00

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