Understanding trauma - Integrating biological, clinical, and cultural perspectives - Grand Format

Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of social and Transcultural Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. He is editor-in-chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, a quarterly scientific journal, and directs the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Department of Psychiatry, sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on mental health services for immigrants and refugees, the mental health of indigenous peoples, and the anthropology of psychiatry.
Robert Lemelson is currently a lecturer in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the president of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR). He is a psychological anthropologist with aspecialty in culture and mental illness. He was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia and'is currently releasing several documentary films based on his research on culture and neuropsychiatric disorders.
He has published in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry ; Medical Anthropology Quarterly ; Jranscultural Psychiatry ; and other journals. Marx Barad is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been the Tennenbaum Scholar from the Department of Psychiatry. His current research and writing further explore the development of adjunctive treatments to accelerate and facilitate the behavioral psychotherapy of anxiety disorders.
In addition to his research ana eaching,Dr. Barad has supervised at the UCLA Anxiety Disorders clinic and the UCLA General Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic He also has a private practice as a psychiatrist.