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Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 平特五不中
Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry
Cultural Configuration of the Self
June 25 - 27, 2025
Montreal, Qu茅bec
Advanced Study Institute Conference and Workshop (June 25 - 27, 2025)
Recent work in cognitive science has provided integrative ways of thinking about the self as embodied and narrative structures that are embedded in particular social-cultural contexts and enacted through bodily and social practices. This suggests the self is constituted by a dynamic system that weaves together bodily, narrative and interpersonal processes. This framework can be used to think systematically about cultural variations in the configuration of the self that are central concerns for cultural psychiatry. This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on the nature of the self to discuss how culture and context shape the self in health and illness. Presentations will explore: (1) current models of the self and its cultural variations; (2) the interplay of self and environment in social and cultural context; (3) cultural shaping of pathologies of the self; and (4) modes of clinical or social intervention that target the self in cultural context.
The format will be a 2-day Workshop (June 25 & 26) for researchers working on these issues, with intensive discussion of pre-circulated papers unpublished by participants. A public Conference (June 27) directed to mental health practitioners, researchers, and students will include selected workshop presentations and panel discussions as well as a poster session. After peer review, selected papers will be published in a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry.
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Call for Papers Limited space is available for paper presentations at the ASI workshop. To submit an abstract for consideration, please provide the information requested on the form on the next page and email to: tcpsych [at] mcgill.ca. Proposals will be reviewed by the ASI program committee. If accepted, draft papers will be due for pre-circulation to workshop participants by June 1, 2025. Papers not accepted for workshop presentation, may be accepted for the Conference poster session. To submit a paper for the Conference poster session, complete the online registration form: www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/training/summer. |
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