Professor Laurence J Kirmayer

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Director Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute and directs the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services and philosophy of psychiatry. His publications include Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience (Cambridge University, 2025); Unraveling the World Knot: Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Practice (2026)  and the co-edited volumes:  Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2014); Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (2015);  Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications (2020). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.