April WKW Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture Series: Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer

Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer - April 7, 2026

"The Situated Brain:  A Cultural Ecosocial Approach"

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm     Program VIA ZOOM ONLY (See link below)

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Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute, and Director of 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, 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 McGill Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry (www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych). In Canada, he founded the national Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (www.namhr.ca), the Cultural Consultation Service (www.mcgill.ca/ccs), and the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (www.mmhrc.ca). His publications include: Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience, (Cambridge University Press, 2025); Unraveling the World Knot: Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Practice (Cambridge, 2026) and the co-edited volumes: Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2009); Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2014); Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Cambridge, 2015); and Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications (Cambridge, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences).

  Learning Objectives:  

1. To describe how a cultural-ecosocial framework conceptualizes the brain as situated in social, cultural, and structural contexts, and explain why this challenges reductionistic biomedical models.
2. Formulate research questions and study designs that operationalize a cultural-ecosocial perspective, including measures of social determinants, cultural meaning-making, and brain-related processes, in order to investigate how context shapes mechanisms and outcomes in mental health.
3. Apply cultural-ecosocial principles to design or critique psychiatric interventions and services that integrate neurobiological, psychological, social, and cultural levels of care in a coherent clinical or programmatic approach.

For Physicians: Saint Francis Health System is accredited by the Oklahoma State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Saint Francis Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
For Psychologists: The Oklahoma State Board of Examiners of Psychologists recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Saint Francis Health System is accredited by the OSMA.
 
For Social Workers: Saint Francis Health System is an approved CE Provider for the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers.  This event if approved for 1 hours, Category 1 Clinical.  (CEP Number - 20260007)

For CADCs and LADCs Saint Francis Health System is accredited as a provider of continuing education programs for CADCs and LADCs through the Oklahoma Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors. (1 hour) (Provider Number - 20260008)
 
The LPC/LMFT Saint Francis Health System is a Board approved CE Provider for the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure (BBHL). This course is approved for 1 hour of CE.

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