Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is Distinguished James 成人VR视频 Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 成人VR视频. He is a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute, and Director of the聽Culture & Mental Health Research Unit聽at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services, the mental health of Indigenous peoples, the integration of culture in global mental health, psychiatric anthropology, and the philosophy of psychiatry. He founded and directs the annual 成人VR视频 Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry (). In Canada, he founded the national Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (), the Cultural Consultation Service (), and the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (). His publications include:聽Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience, (Cambridge University Press, 2025);聽Unraveling the World Knot: Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Practice聽(Cambridge, 2026) and the co-edited volumes:聽Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives聽(Cambridge University Press, 2007);聽Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada聽(University of British Columbia Press, 2009);聽Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care聽(Springer, 2014);聽Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health聽(Cambridge, 2015); and聽Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications聽(Cambridge, 2020).聽He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences).
laurence.kirmayer [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Articles
Kirmayer, L.J., Bouizegarene, N., Constant, A., & Ramstead, M.J.D. (2026).The place of narrative in psychiatric theory and practice. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 33(2):
Ting, R. S-K., Ansloos, J., Lee, B-O., Gone, J.P., & Kirmayer, L.J. Decolonizing mental health practice through traditional healing frameworks: Insights from Canada, China, Singapore, and the United States. American Psychologist, 80(4), 630-642.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2025). The place of the social in psychiatry: From structural determinants to ecologies of mind. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 60, 771-783. doi: 10.1007/s00127-024-02772-5
Kirmayer, L.J. (2025). Ethnographic research in psychology: A cultural-ecosocial view. Qualitative Psychology, 12(1): 110-122.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2024). Science and sanity: A social epistemology of disinformation and the limits of knowledge. Transcultural Psychiatry, 61(5): 795鈥�808.
Bouizegarene, N., Ramstead, M.J.D., Constant, A., Friston, K., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2025). Narrative as active inference: an integrative account of cognitive and social functions in adapation. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 15, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1345480
D鈥橲ouza, N., Field, M., Supino, T., Messer, M., Aleck, E., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2024). Mental health implementation research in Indigenous contexts: Creating cultural safe space to enhance collective strengths. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 20(1): 194-204. doi:: 10.1177/1171801241235373 3
Jarvis, G.E., Andermann, L., Ayonrinde, O., Beder, M., C茅nat, J.M., Ben-Cheikh I., Fung, K., Gajaria, A., G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Guzder, J., Hanafi, S., Kassam, A., Kronick, R., Lashley, M., Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R., McMahon, A., Measham, T., Munshi, A., Nadeau, L., Rousseau, C., Sadek, J., Schouler-Ocak, M., Wieman, C. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2023). Taking action on racism and structural violence in psychiatric training and clinical practice. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1-29.
Lee, B.O. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2023). Spirit mediumship and mental health: Therapeutic self-transformation among Dang-kis in Singapore. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 47: 271-300. doi: 10.1007/s11013-021-09765-y
Adeponle, A., Groleau, D., Gureje, O. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2023). Help-seeking for moderate to severe perinatal depression in Nigeria: Implications for a cultural-ecosocial approach to global mental health. Social Science and Medicine鈥揗ental Health, 3, 100217.
G贸mez-Carrillo, A. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2023). A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1031390
G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Kirmayer, L.J., Aggarwal, N.K., Bhui, K.S., Fung, K.-L., Kohrt, B., Weiss, M., & Lewis-Fernandez, R. (2023). Integrating neuroscience in psychiatry: A cultural-ecosocial systemic approach. The Lancet: Psychiatry, 10: 296-304. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00006-8
G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Paquin, V., Dumas, G. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2023). Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 30. doi:
Mianji, F. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2021). 鈥淲omen as troublemakers鈥�: The hard sociopolitical context of soft bipolar disorder in Iran. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 46:864鈥�888
Khalili-Mahani, N., Holowka, E., Woods, S., Khaled, R., Roy, M., Lashley, M., Glatard, T., Tim-Bottos, J., Dahan, A., Niesters, M., Hovey, R.B., Simon, B., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2021). Play the Pain: A digital strategy for play-oriented research and action. Frontiers in Psychiatry: Digital Mental Health, 12(746477): 1-23. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.746477
Cohen-Fournier, S., Brass, G. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2021). Decolonizing health care: Challenges of cultural and epistemic pluralism in medical decision making with Indigenous communities. Bioethics, 35(8): 767-778. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12946
Kirmayer, L.J., Fung, K., Rousseau, C., Lo, H-T., Menzies, P., Guzder, J., Ganesan, S., Andermann, L. & McKenzie, K. (2021). Guidelines for training in cultural psychiatry. (2021)/ Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 66(2): 195-246.
Mianji, F., Tomaro, J. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). Linguistic and cultural barriers to access and utilization of mental health care for Farsi-speaking newcomers in Quebec. International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, 16(4): 495-510; DOI 10.1108/IJMHSC-08-2019-0074
Sapkota, R.P., Brunet, A. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). Characteristics of adolescents affected by mass psychogenic illness outbreaks in schools in Nepal: A case-control study. Frontiers in Psychiatry (Public Mental Health), 11: Article 493094. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.493094
Lee, B.O. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020).听Dang-ki healing: An embodied, relational healing practice in Singapore. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(6): 786-800.
G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Lencucha, R., Faregh, N., Veissi猫re, S. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). Engaging culture and context in Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) implementation: Fostering reflexive deliberation in practice. BMJ Global Health, doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002689
Aggarwal, N. Jarvis, G.E., G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Kirmayer, L.J., & Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R.L. (2020). The cultural formulation interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research and clinical practice. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(4): 496-514.
Lindahl, J., Cooper, D.J. Fisher, N.E., Kirmayer, L.J. & Britton, W.B. (2020). Progress or pathology? Differential diagnosis and intervention criteria for meditation-related challenges: Perspectives from Buddhist meditation teachers and practitioners. Frontiers of Psychology, 11, 1905, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01905
Mianji, F. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). The globalization of biological psychiatry and the rise of bipolar spectrum disorder in Iran. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 44(3): 404-432.
Jarvis, G.E., Kirmayer, L.J., G贸mez-Carrillo, A., Aggarwal, N.K., & Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R. (2020). Update on the Cultural Formulation Interview. Focus, 18(1): 40-46.
Veissi猫re, S.P.L., Constant, A., Ramstead, M.J.D., Friston, K. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e90: 1鈥�75. doi:10.1017/ S0140525X19001213
Sapkota, R.P., Brunet, A. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2019). Predictors of dissociative experiences among adolescents in Nepal: A path analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(11): 958-968.
Kirmayer, L.J. & G贸mez-Carrillo, A. (2019). Agency, embodiment, and enactment in psychosomatic medicine. Medical Humanities, 45: 169-182.
Kidron, C.A. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2019). Global mental health and idioms of distress: The paradox of culture-sensitive pathologization of distress. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 43: 211-235.
Kirmayer, L.J., Fung, K.P., Sockalingam, S. Fleischer, W.P., Adeponle, A., Bhat, V., Ganesan, S., & Munshi, A. (2018). Cultural issues in the training of IMGs. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 63(4): 258-280.
Kirmayer, L.J., Ban L. & Jaranson, J. (2018). Cultural logics of emotion: Implications for understanding torture and its sequelae. Torture, 28(1): 37-53.
Kirmayer, L.J.,聽Gomez-Carrillo, A., &聽Veissi猫re, S.聽(2017). Culture and depression in global mental health: An ecosocial approach to the phenomenology of psychiatric disorders. Social Science and Medicine, 183: 163-168.
Skogli, H-R, Geoffroy, D., Weiler, H.A., Tell, G.S., Kirmayer, L.J., Egeland, G.M. (2017). Associations between omega-3 fatty acids and 25(OH)D and psychological distress among Inuit in Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 76, 1302684.
Adeponle, A., Groleau, D. Kola, L., Kirmayer, L.J. & Gureje, O. (2017). Perinatal depression in Nigeria: Perspectives of women, family caregivers and health care providers. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11: 27.
Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R., Aggarwal, N.K., Lam, P., Galfalvy, H., Weiss, M.G., Kirmayer, L.J., Paralikar, V., Deshpande, S.N., Diaz, E., Nicasio, A.V., Boiler, M., Alar贸n, R.D., Rohlof, H., Groen, S., van Dijk, R.C.J., Jadhav, S., Sarmukaddam, S., Ndetei, D., Scalco, M.Z., Bassiri, K., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Ton, H., Westermeyer, J., Vega-Deinstmaier, J.M. Feasibility, acceptability, and clinical utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview: Mixed-methods results from the DSM-5 international field trial. (2017). British Journal of Psychiatry April 2017, 210 (4): 290-297.
Kirmayer, L.J., & Ryder, A. (2016). Culture and psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8: 143-148.
Na, S., Ryder, A. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Toward a culturally responsive model of mental health literacy: Facilitating help-seeking among East Asian immigrants to North America. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58(1-2), 211-225.
Ramstead, M.J.D, Veissi猫re, S. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Cultural affordances, shared intentionality, and regimes of attention. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, 7, Article 1090, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01090
Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). The flexibility hypothesis of healing. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, doi:10.1007/s11013-016-9493-8
Hassan, G., Ventvoegel, P., Jeffee-Bahloul, H., Barkil-Oteo, A., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Syrians affected by armed conflict. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 25(2): 129-141.
Pottie, K., Greenaway, C., Hassan, G., Hui, C. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Caring for a newly arrived Syrian refugee family. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 188(3): 207-211.
Aggarwal, N.K., Lam, P., Castillo, E., Weiss, M.G., Diaz, E., Alarc贸n, R.D., van Dijk, R., Rohlof, H., Ndetei, D.M., Scalco, M., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Bassiri, K., Despande, S., Groen, S., Jadhav, S. Kirmayer, L.J., Paralikar, C., Westermeyer, J., Santos, F., Vega-Dienstmaier, J., Anez, L., Boiler, M., Nicasio, A.V. & Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R. (2016). How do clinicians prefer cultural competence training? Findings from the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Field Trials. Academic Psychiatry, 40(4): 584-591.
Paris, J. &聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽聽(2016). The National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria: A bridge too far.聽Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204(1): 26-32.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). Mindfulness in cultural context. Transcultural Psychiatry, 52(4): 447-469.
Ryder, A.G., Sunohara, M., & Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). Culture and personality disorder: From a fragmented literature to a contextually-grounded alternative. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 29(1): 40-45.
Dabby, L., Tranulis, C., &聽Kirmayer, L. J. 聽(2015).聽Explicit and implicit attitudes of Canadian physicians toward people with mental illness.聽Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 60(10): 451-459.
Chachamovich, E.聽Kirmayer L. J.,聽Haggarty J., Cargo M., McCormick, R., Hicks, J., Turecki, G. (2015). 聽Suicide among Inuit: Results from a large, epidemiologically representative follow-back study in Nunavut.聽Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,听60(6): 268-275.
Anderson, K.K., Flora, N., Ferrari, M., Tuck, A., Archie, S., Kidd, S., Tang, T.,听Kirmayer L. J.,听McKenzie, K. on behalf of the ACE Project Team).聽(2015).聽Pathways to first-episode care for psychosis in African, Caribbean, and European origin groups in Ontario.聽Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,听60(5); 223-231.
Wexler, L., Chandler, M., Gone, J., Cwik, M.,听Kirmayer, L. J.,听LaFromboise, T., Brockie, T., O鈥橩eefe, V., Walkup, J. & Allan, J. (2015). Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations.聽American Journal of Public Health, 105(5): 891-899
Choudhury, S., McKinney, K., &聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽聽(2015).聽鈥淟earning how to deal with feelings differently鈥�: Psychotropic medications as vehicles of socialization in adolescence.聽Social Science and Medicine, 143: 311-319.
Cloninger, C.R., Salvador-Carulla, L.,聽Kirmayer, L. J.,聽Schwartz, M.A., Appleyard, J., Goodwin, N., Groves, J. Hermans, M.H.M., Mezzich, J.E., van Staden, C.W., & Rawaf, S. (2015). A time for action on health inequities: Foundations of the 2014 Geneva Declaration on Person- and People-centered Integrated Health Care for All.聽International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, 4(2): 69-89.
Adeponle, A., Groleau, D., &聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015). Clinician reasoning in the use of cultural formulation to resolve uncertainty in the diagnosis of psychosis.聽Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry,听39(1): 16-42.
Fraser, S.L., Geoffroy, D., Chachamovich, E., &聽聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015). Changing rates of suicide ideation and attempts among Inuit youth: A gender-based analysis of risk and protective factors.聽Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior,听45(1): 141-156.
Kirmayer, L.J., & Pedersen, D. (2014). Toward a new architecture for global mental health. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(6): 759-776. [Reprinted in: Focus, 2015, 13(4): 460 鈥� 468.]
Sapkota, R.P., Gurung, D., Neupane, D., Shah, S., Kienzler, H. &聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2014).聽A village possessed by 鈥渨itches鈥�: A mixed-methods, case-control study of possession and common mental disorders in Nepal.聽Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry,听38(4): 642-668.
Kirmayer, L.J., & Crafa, D. (2014). What kind of science for psychiatry?聽Frontiers in Human聽Neuroscience, 8: 435,听doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00435.
Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R., Aggarwal, N.K.,听B盲盲rnhielm, S.,听Rohlof, H.,听Kirmayer, L. J.,听Weiss, M.,听Jadhav, S.,听Hinton, L.,听Alarc贸n, R.D.,听Bhugra, D.,听Groen, S.,听van Dyjk, R.,听Qureshi, A.,听Collazos, F.,听Rousseau, C.,听Caballero, L.,听Ramos, M., & Lu,听F. (2014). Culture and psychiatric evaluation: Operationalizing cultural formulation for DSM-5.聽Psychiatry,听77(2): 130-154.聽 聽聽
Nath, Y. Paris, J., Thombs, B.D. &聽Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2014).聽Prevalence and social determinants of suicidal behaviors among college youth in India.聽聽International Journal of Social Psychiatry,听6(3): 236-249. [epub Oct 20, 2011].
Kirmayer, L. J., & Ban, L. (2013). Cultural psychiatry: research strategies and future directions. Adv Psychosom Med, 33, 97-114.
Kirmayer, L. J., Raikhel, E., & Rahimi, S. (2013). Cultures of the Internet: identity, community and mental health. Transcult Psychiatry, 50(2), 165-191.
Kirmayer, L. J., Fung, K., Rousseau, C., Lo, H. T., Menzies, P., Guzder, J.,听Ganesan, S., Andermann, L.,听&聽McKenzie, K. (2012). Guidelines for training in cultural psychiatry. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 57(3), Insert 1-16.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Changing patterns in suicide among young people. CMAJ, 184(9).
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Rethinking cultural competence. Transcult Psychiatry, 49(2), 149-164.
Dinh, M. H., Groleau, D., Kirmayer, L. J., Rodriguez, C., & Bibeau, G. (2012). Influence of the DSM-IV Outline for Cultural Formulation on multidisciplinary case conferences in mental health. Anthropology & Medicine, 19(2), 261-276.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Cultural competence and evidence-based practice in mental health: Epistemic communities and the politics of pluralism. Soc Sci Med, 75, 249-256.
Adeponle, A. B., Thombs, B. D., Groleau, D., Jarvis, E., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Using the cultural formulation to resolve uncertainty in diagnoses of psychosis among ethnoculturally diverse patients. Psychiatric Services, 63(2), 147-153.
Kirmayer, L. J., Narasiah, L., Muniz, M., Rashid, M., Ryder, A., Guzder, J., et al. (2011). Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: General approach to the patient in primary care. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 183(12).
Kirmayer, L. J. (2011). Les politiques de l鈥檃lt茅rit茅 dans la rencontre clinique [The politics of alterity in the clinical encounter]. L'Autre: Cliniques, Cultures et Soci茅t茅s, 12(1), 16-29.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2011). Multicultural medicine and the politics of recognition. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 36(410-463.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2011). Defining and delimiting trauma-related dissociation: a view from cultural psychiatry. Journal of trauma & dissociation, 12(4), 465-468.
Kirmayer, L. J., Dandeneau, S., Marshall, E., Phillips, M. K., & Williamson, K. J. (2011). Rethinking resilience from indigenous perspectives. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56(2), 84-91.
Afana, A.-H., Pedersen, D., R酶nsbo, H., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). "Endurance is to be shown at the first blow": Social representations and reactions to traumatic experiences in the Gaza strip. Traumatology, 16(4), 73-84.
Choudhury, S., Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). From brain image to the Bush Doctrine: Critical neuroscience and the political uses of neurotechnology. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, 1(1), 17-19.
Dere, J., Ryder, A. G., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). Bidimensional measurement of acculturation in a multiethinic sample of first-generation immigrants. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 42(2), 134-138.
Groleau, D., Whitley, R., Lesperance, F., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction: Influence of culture and place. Health & Place, 16(5), 853-860.
Hickling, F. W., Guzder, J., Robertson-Hickling, H., Snow, S., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). Psychic centrality: reflections on two psychohistoriographic cultural therapy workshops in Montreal. Transcultural Psychiatry, 47(1), 136-158.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). Peace, conflict, and reconciliation: contributions of cultural psychiatry. Transcultural Psychiatry, 47(1), 5-19.
Lee, B. O., Kirmayer, L. J., & Groleau, D. (2010). Therapeutic Processes and Perceived Helpfulness of Dang-Ki (Chinese Shamanism) from the Symbolic Healing Perspective. Cultural Medicine & Psychiatry, 34(1), 56-105.
Mezzich, J. E., Salloum, I. M., Cloninger, C. R., Salvador-Carulla, L., Kirmayer, L. J., Banzato, C. E. M., et al. (2010). Person-centered Integrative Diagnosis: Conceptual basis and structural model. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 55(11), 701-708.
Pierre, A., Minn, P., Sterlin, C., Annoual, P. C., Jaimes, A., Rapha毛l, F., et al. (2010). Culture and Mental Health in Haiti: A Literature Review. Sant茅 Mentale en Ha茂ti, 1(1), 13-42.
Rousseau, C., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). From complicity to advocacy: the necessity of refugee research. American Journal of Bioethics, 10(2), 65-67.
Thombs, B. D., Adeponle, A. B., Kirmayer, L. J., & Morgan, J. F. (2010). A brief scale to assess hospital doctors' attitudes toward collaborative care for mental health. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 55(4), 264-267.
Tiessen, M., Taylor, D. M., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). A key individual-to-community link: The impact of perceived collective control on Aboriginal youth well-being. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, 7(2), 241-267.
Choudhury, S., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2009). Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry. Progress in Brain Research, 178, 261-281.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2009). Nightmares, Neurophenomenology and the Cultural Logic of Trauma. Cultural Medicine & Psychiatry, 33, 323-331.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Raikhel, E. (2009). From Amrita to substance D: psychopharmacology, political economy, and technologies of the self. Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(1), 5-15.
Mezzich, J. E., Caracci, G., Fabrega, H., Jr., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2009). Cultural formulation guidelines. Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(3), 383-405.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2008). Empathy and alterity in cultural psychiatry. Ethos, 36(4), 457-474.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2008). Culture and the metaphoric mediation of pain. Transcultural Psychiatry, 45(2), 318-338.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., Corin, E., & Groleau, D. (2008). Training researchers in cultural psychiatry: The 成人VR视频-CIHR Strategic Training Program. Academic Psychiatry, 32(4), 320-326.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., Guzder, J., & Jarvis, G. E. (2008). Training clinicians in cultural psychiatry: A Canadian perspective. Academic Psychiatry, 32(4), 313-319.
Kirmayer, L. J., Thombs, B. D., Jurcik, T., Jarvis, G. E., & Guzder, J. (2008). Use of an expanded version of the DSM-IV outline for cultural formulation on a cultural consultation service. Psychiatric Services, 59(6), 683-686.
Seligman, R., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2008). Dissociative experience and cultural neuroscience: narrative, metaphor and mechanism. Cultural Medicine & Psychiatry, 32(1), 31-64.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Psychotherapy and the cultural concept of the person. Transcultural Psychiatry, 44(2), 232-257.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Celan's poetics of alterity: Lyric and the understanding of illness experience in medical ethics. Monash Bioethics Review, 26(4), 21-35.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., & Lashley, M. (2007). The place of culture in forensic psychiatry. Journal of American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 35(1), 98-102.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Sartorius, N. (2007). Cultural models and somatic syndromes. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(9), 832-840.
Kirmayer, L. J., Weinfeld, M., Burgos, G., du Fort, G. G., Lasry, J. C., & Young, A. (2007). Use of health care services for psychological distress by immigrants in an urban multicultural milieu. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 52(5), 295-304.
Groleau, D., Young, A., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2006). The 成人VR视频 Illness Narrative Interview (MINI): an interview schedule to elicit meanings and modes of reasoning related to illness experience. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43(4), 671-691.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2006). Beyond the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry': cultural biology, discursive psychology and the ironies of globalization. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43(1), 126-144.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2006). Toward a medicine of the imagination. New Literary History, 37(3), 583-605.
Miresco, M. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2006). The persistence of mind-brain dualism in psychiatric reasoning about clinical scenarios. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(5), 913-918.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2005). Culture, context and experience in psychiatric diagnosis. Psychopathology, 38(4), 192-196.
Mayou, R., Kirmayer, L. J., Simon, G., Kroenke, K., & Sharpe, M. (2005). Somatoform disorders: time for a new approach in DSM-V. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(5), 847-855.
Selected Books and Chapters
Kirmayer, L.J. (2026). Unraveling the World-Knot: Mind-body Problems in Clinical Context. Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2025). Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience. Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2024). Toward a poetics of illness and healing. In: Bleakley, A. & Neilson, S. (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry (pp. 17-41). Routledge.
Kirmayer, L.J. (2022). Archaeologies of metaphor: Gilah Yelin Hirsch鈥檚 visual poetics of body, mind, and healing. In D. Stein (Ed.), Archeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch (pp. 82-105). Skira Press.
Kirmayer, L.J., Worthman, C., Kitayama, S., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C.A. (Eds.) (2020)聽Culture, Mind, and Brain:聽Emerging Concepts, Models, Applications,聽New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L.J., & Ramstead, M.J.D. (2017). Embodiment and enactment in cultural psychiatry. In: C. Durt, T. Fuchs, & C. Tewes (Eds.) Embodiment, Enactment and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (pp. 397-422). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R.L., Kirmayer, L.J., Guarnaccia, P., & Ruiz, P. (2017). Cultural concepts of distress. In: Sadock, B.,听 Sadock, V. & Ruiz, P. (Eds.) Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. New York: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Kirmayer, L.J., Mezzich, J. & Van Staden, W. (2016). Health experience and values. In: J. Mezzich, M. Botbol, G. Christodoulou, C.R. Cloninger, & I. Salloum (Eds.). Person-Centered Psychiatry (pp. 179-199), Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
Kirmayer, L.J., Bennegadi, R. & Kastrup, M. (2016). Cultural awareness and responsiveness in person-centered psychiatry. In: J. Mezzich, M. Botbol, G. Christodoulou, C.R. Cloninger, & I. Salloum (Eds.). Person-Centered Psychiatry (pp. 77-95), Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
Kirmayer, L.J., Sheiner, E. & Geoffroy, D. (2016). Mental health promotion for Indigenous youth. In: M. Hodes & S. Gau (Eds.) Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma, Promoting Resiliency and Positive Mental Health (pp. 111-140). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., Jarvis, G.E. & Guzder, J.聽(2016).The cultural context of clinical assessment. In: Tasman, A., Kay. J., Lieberman, J. First M.B., & Riba, M. (eds.)聽Psychiatry, (Fourth edition), (pp. 56-70). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2016). Unpacking the placebo response: Insights from ethnographic studies of healing. In: A. Raz & C. Harris (Eds.)聽Placebo Talks: Modern Perspectives on Placebos in Society聽(pp. 119-143). New York:聽Oxford University Press.
Seligman, R., Choudhury, S. & Kirmayer, L. J. (2016). Locating culture in the brain and in the world: From social categories to the ecology of mind. In: J. Chiao, Li, S-C., Seligman, R. & Turner, R. (Eds.)聽Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience聽(pp. 3-20), New York: Oxford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015).Re-visioning psychiatry: Toward an ecology of mind in health and illness. In: Kirmayer, L.J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C. (Eds.)聽Re-visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health聽(pp. 622-660). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015).Empathy and alterity in psychiatry. In: Kirmayer, L.J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C. (Eds.)聽Re-visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health聽(pp. 141-167). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C.聽(2015).聽Introduction: Psychiatry at a crossroads. In: Kirmayer, L.J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C. (Eds.)聽Re-visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health聽(pp. 1-38).聽聽New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015).The future of cultural formulation. In: Lewis- Fern谩ndez, R., Aggarwal, N.K., Hinton, L., Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L.J. (Eds.)聽DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview聽(pp. 267-285), Washington: APPI Press.
Hinton, D.E., Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R.L., Kirmayer, L. J. & Weiss, M.G.聽(2015).Supplementary modules 1: Explanatory Model. In: Lewis-Fernandez, R., Aggarwal, N.K., Hinton, L., Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L.J. (Eds.)聽DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview聽(pp. 56-67), Washington: APPI Press.
Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R.L., Aggarwal, N.K. & Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015).Cultural formulation before DSM-5. In: Lewis-Fernandez, R., Aggarwal, N.K., Hinton, L., Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L.J. (Eds.)聽DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview聽(pp. 1-28), Washington: APPI Press.
Lewis-Fern谩ndez, R.L., Aggarwal, N.K. & Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2015).聽Introduction. In: Lewis-Fernandez, R., Aggarwal, N.K., Hinton, L., Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L.J. (Eds.)聽DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview聽(pp. xxvii-xxxiv), Washington: APPI Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C.A. (Eds.) (2015).聽Re-visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health,聽New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lewis-Fernandez, R., Aggarwal, N., Hinton, L., Hinton, D. & Kirmayer, L. J. (Eds.) (2015).聽Handbook for the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation, Washington: APPI Press.
Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2014). Wrestling with the angels of history: Memory, symptom, and intervention. In: A. Hinton & D. Hinton (eds.)聽Genocide and Mass聽Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery聽(pp. 388-420).聽New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J.聽(2014).聽Critical psychiatry in Canada.聽In: R. Moodley & M. Ocampo (Eds.)聽Critical Psychiatry and Psychology: Exploring the work of Suman Fernando in Clinical Practice聽(pp. 170-181). London: Routledge.
Kirmayer, L. J.,聽Guzder, J., & Rousseau, C. (Eds.). (2014). Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care. New York: Springer.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2014). Medicines of the Imagination: Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism. In H. Naraindas, J. Quack & W. S. Sax (Eds.), Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries (pp. 26-55). Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Kirmayer, L. J., Guzder, J., & Rousseau, C. (Eds.). (2014). Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care. New York: Springer.
Kirmayer, L.J., Rousseau, C., Jarvis, G.E. & Guzder, J. (2014). The cultural context of clinical assessment. In: Tasman, A., & Kay. J. (Eds.) The Psychiatric Interview: Evaluation and Diagnosis, (pp. 47-63), New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Ban, L. (2013). Cultural psychiatry: research strategies and future directions. Adv Psychosom Med, 33, 97-114. doi: 10.1159/000348742
Kirmayer, L. J., & Swartz, L. (2013). Culture and global mental health. In V. Patel, M. Prince, A. Cohen & H. Minas (Eds.), Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Gold, I. (2012). Re-socializing psychiatry: Critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism. In S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (Eds.), Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kirmayer, L. J., Dandeneau, S., Marshall, E., Phillips, M. K., & Williamson, K. J. (2012). Toward an ecology of stories: Indigenous perspectives on resilience. In M. Ungar (Ed.), The Social Ecology of Resilience (pp. 399-414). New York: Springer.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Culture and context in human rights. In M. Dudley, D. Silove & F. Gale (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: Vision, Praxis and Courage (pp. 95-112). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). The future of critical neuroscience. In S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (Eds.), Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience (pp. 367-383). Oxford: Blackwell.
Adeponle, A. B., Whitley, R., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Cultural contexts and constructions of recovery. In A. Rudnick (Ed.), Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives (pp. 109-132). New York: Oxford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Culture and context in human rights. In M. Dudley, D. Silove & F. Gale (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: Vision, Praxis and Courage (pp. 109-126). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). The future of critical neuroscience. In S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (Eds.), Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience (pp. 367-383). Oxford: Blackwell.
Kirmayer, L. J., Dandeneau, S., Marshall, E., Phillips, M. K., & Williamson, K. J. (2012). Toward an ecology of stories: Indigenous perspectives on resilience. . In M. Ungar (Ed.), The Social Ecology of Resilience (pp. 399-414). New York: Springer.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Gold, I. (2012). Re-socializing psychiatry: Critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism. In S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (Eds.), Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. Oxford: Blackwell.
Williamson, K. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). Inuit ways of knowing: Cosmocentrism and the role of teasing in childrearing. In C. Worthman, P. Plotsky, D. S. Schechter & C. Cummings (Eds.), Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology (pp. 299-307). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., & Measham, T. (2010). Sociocultural considerations. In D. Benedek & G. H. Wynn (Eds.), Clinical Manual for the Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Washington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Kirmayer, L. J., Kienzler, H., Afana, A. H., & Pedersen, D. (2010). Trauma and disasters in social and cultural context. In D. Bhugra & C. Morgan (Eds.), Principles of Social Psychiatry (2 ed., pp. 155-177). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gone, J. P., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). On the wisdom of considering culture and context in psychopathology. In T. Millon, R. F. Krueger & E. Simonsen (Eds.), Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Scientific Foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11 (pp. 72-96). New York: Guilford.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Sartorius, N. (2009). Cultural models and somatic syndromes. In J. E. Dimsdale, V. Patel, Y. Xin, A. Kleinman, P. J. Sirovatka & D. A. Regier (Eds.), Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V (pp. 23-46). Washington: American Psychiatric Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Blake, C. (2009). Theoretical perspectives on the cross-cultural study of panic disorder. In D. Hinton & B. J. Good (Eds.), Culture and Panic Disorder (pp. 35-56). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Bhugra, D. (2009). Culture and mental illness: social context and explanatory models. In I. M. Salloum & J. E. Mezzich (Eds.), Psychiatric Diagnosis: Patterns and Prospects (pp. 29-37). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., Jarvis, G. E., & Guzder, J. (2008). The cultural context of clinical assessment. In A. Tasman, M. Maj, M. B. First, J. Kay & J. Lieberman (Eds.), Psychiatry (3 ed., pp. 54-66). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Valaskakis, G. G. (Eds.). (2008). Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective. In D. Bhugra & K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry (pp. 3-19). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Failures of imagination: The refugee's predicament. In L. J. Kirmayer, R. Lemelson & M. Barad (Eds.), Understanding Trauma: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (pp. 363-381). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Foreword. In B. Drozdek & J. P. Wilson (Eds.), Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures (pp. v-vii). New York: Springer.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). On the cultural mediation of pain. In K. Shelemay & S. Coakley (Eds.), Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (pp. 363-401). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Brass, G. M., Holton, T. L., Paul, K., Simpson, C., & Tait, C. L. (2007). Suicide Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
Kirmayer, L. J., Burgos, G., Ryder, A., Thombs, B. D., Zelkowitz, P., Narasiah, L., et al. (2007). Clinical guidelines for primary care prevention and treatment of depression among immigrants and refugees in Canada: Background paper for the Public Health Agency of Canada. Montreal: Culture and Mental Health Research Unit.
Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R., & Barad, M. (2007). Introduction: Inscribing trauma in culture, brain, and body. In L. J. Kirmayer, R. Lemelson & M. Barad (Eds.), Understanding Trauma: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (pp. 1-20). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R., & Barad, M. (2007). Epilogue: Trauma and the vicissitudes of interdisciplinary integration. In L. J. Kirmayer, R. Lemelson & M. Barad (Eds.), Understanding Trauma: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (pp. 475-489). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R., & Barad, M. (Eds.). (2007). Understanding trauma: Integrating biological, clinical, and cultural perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Looper, K. J. (2007). Somatoform disorders. In M. Hersen, S. Turner & D. Beidel (Eds.), Adult Psychopathology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Paul, K. (2007). Mental health and social support. In E. Dewailly (Ed.), Inuit Health Survey. Quebec: Nassivik.
Kirmayer, L. J., & Jarvis, G. E. (2005). Depression across cultures. In D. Stein, A. Schatzberg & D. Kupfer (Eds.), Textbook of Mood Disorders (pp. 611-629). Washington: American Psychiatric Press.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2004). The sound of one hand clapping: Listening to Prozac in Japan. In C. Elliott & T. Chambers (Eds.), Prozac as a Way of Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (pp. 164-193).
Kirmayer, L. J., Corin, E., & Jarvis, G. E. (2004). Inside knowledge: Cultural constructions of insight in psychosis. In X. F. Amador & A. S. David (Eds.), Insight in Psychosis 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 197-229).
Kirmayer, L. J. (2003). Reflections on embodiment. In J. Wilce (ed.), Social Lives of Immune Systems. New York: Routledge.
Kirmayer, L. J., Boothroyd, L. J., Tanner, A., Adelson, N., Robinson, E., & Oblin, C. (2003). Psychological distress among the Cree of James Bay. In P. Boss (Ed.), Family Stress: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage(pp. 249-264).
Kirmayer, L. J., Looper, K. J., & Taillefer, S. (2003). Somatoform disorders. In S. Turner & M. Hersen (Eds.), Adult Psychopathology 4th Ed . New York: John Wiley & Sons (pp. 420-475).