Vincenzo Di Nicola

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine

The study explores whether an atypical form of obsessional illness can be delineated and separated from the conventional form of obsessive-compulsive neurosis (OCN). From a group of 45 obsessive patients, 8 were selected on the basis of 3 criteria: (a) presence of a severely debilitating main obsessive symptom; (b) bordering on the delusional; (c)...

Forty patients aged 13 to 18 years participated in a placebo-controlled double-blind study of fluoxetine. Fifteen subjects in each group completed the eight week study. Approximately two-thirds of the patients showed marked or moderate clinical global Improvement with both fluoxetine and placebo. Fluoxetine was superior to placebo on all clinical m...

Argues that there is a connection between anorexia nervosa (AN) and culture. AN is described as a culture-reactive syndrome. AN can be distinguished (1) as a culture-bound syndrome (especially in the West) and (2) as a culture-change syndrome (especially among immigrants and in developing countries). Cases of 2 immigrant families illustrate how AN...

Family Therapy and Transcultural Psychiatry : An Emerging Synthesis. Part I : The Conceptual Basis by VINCENZO F. DINICOLA In: Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review N° 22, 1985 "Family therapy is the starting point for the study of ever wider social units." Selvini Palazzoli (1974) ContrastIng two fundamentally différent intellectual orienta...

Some studies have demonstrated negative psychological repercussions on children of parents who experienced extreme, prolonged stress. To determine whether such effects might continue in the third generation, we examined the presenting complaints of patients in a child psychiatry clinic who could be reliably identified as: (i) children whose parents...

In this column in Psychiatric Times, I explore the relational dialogue that is both an apparatus or tool and a way of being—social being. Furthermore, it creates a link between the relational therapies of social psychiatry and the “terms of the social” that are at the heart of social psychiatry. Key Takeaways: * Relational dialogue is central to...

Key Takeaways • Psychiatry has evolved from behaviorism to cognitive neuroscience, yet lacks consensus, creating a crisis in the field. • Di Nicola emphasizes a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach, integrating philosophy, poetry, and social sciences into psychiatry. • Relational therapy and addressing mental, relational, and social suffering ar...

In last week’s column on integrative community therapy (ICT) in Brazil, I shared my interview with the founder of that approach, Adalberto de Paula Barreto, MD, PhD. This is part 2 of our interview. Key words in part 2 are: inclusion, transmitting hope, autonomy, and integration.

In this new series in “Second Thoughts,” I will explore what we mean by crazy through popular culture (going deep by staying shallow) and the humanities (cinema, history, literature, philosophy)—all with a psychiatrist’s eye.

Vincenzo Di Nicola “Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families” Northwest Ohio Psychological Association, Toledo, OH November 15, 2024. Learning Objectives: After this presentation, participants will be able to: 1. To document child maltreatment (CM), abuse and trauma as examples of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Social Determin...

In this elaboration of seven lessons for young therapists adapted for trauma-informed care with children and families, a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist with 50 years of experience surveys what therapy is about and how it works, from behaviour therapy and family therapy to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Ranging from what to read and how t...

This symposium convenes three Canadian psychiatric leaders to discuss their concerns, values, and visions for Canadian psychiatry, moderated by a senior Quebec psychiatrist. CPA Presenters: Gary Chaimowitz, Past President (2022-2023), Ontario; Hygiea Casiano, President (2023-2024), Manitoba; Catherine Hickey, President-Elect (2024-2025) - Newfoundl...

This is the third instalment in my column on relational theory as part of the "terms of the social" (https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/terms-of-the-social-iii-the-relational-dialogue, https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/terms-of-the-social-iv-the-relational-self). Relational Theory My core criticism of contemporary psychiatry is that our theo...

Introduction Cet essai revient sur le cas d’Émile Nelligan, le poète le plus célèbre du Québec et le patient le plus célèbre de l’Institut. Écrire une étude de cas clinique doit être pertinent pour le public cible d’une revue médicale scientifique. Cela permet de transmettre des informations cliniques importantes pour l’optimisation de la prise en...

Key Takeaways • Relational psychology emphasizes the importance of social contexts in understanding individual identity, moving from an individual-centric to a society-centric perspective. • Traditional psychoanalysis and family therapy are critiqued for their limited focus on individual identity and relationships, advocating for a relational appro...

Key Takeaways * Eliot Sorel, MD, was a pioneering leader in psychiatry, advocating for global mental health and social justice. * He was instrumental in integrating primary care with psychiatry, co-founding the APA Caucus on Global Mental Health. * Sorel's mentorship and leadership left a lasting impact, inspiring colleagues worldwide to pursue so...

President, World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.-Playwright Tony Kushner Family therapy has an intimate relationship with social psychiatry because the family is the basic unit of society. Th...

“Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Lad” �The Importance of Childhood Trauma �for Forensic Science Professor Vincenzo Di Nicola MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA, FACP October 3, 2024 * Learning Objectives After this presentation, participants will be able to: To document child maltreatment (CM), abuse and trauma across history and cultu...

PSICOTERAPIA, ÉTICA Y SOCIEDAD Por Vincenzo Di Nicola Después de unas vacaciones de trabajo en Brasil en agosto, me tomé un tiempo libre de mi columna para reiniciar el año académico y recibir a dos amigos y familiares terapeutas de la Ciudad de México aquí en Montreal. Tengo varias entrevistas programadas para este otoño, incluyendo a Adalberto...

Soucieux de l'état de la psychiatrie contemporaine, nous sommes lancés dans un projet pour prendre le pouls de la psychiatrie sous de multiples perspectives – biomédecine, sciences sociales et humaines – dans notre étude Psychiatrie en crise. La crise de la psychiatrie n'est pas simplement une crise sanitaire de rareté ou de distribution des resso...

Adalberto Barreto, MD, PhD and Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) in Brazil Our interview was conducted in Portuguese on August 16, 2024 at the 15th Congress of the Brazilian Association of Family Therapy (ABRATEF in the Portuguese acronym) in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the inland state of Minas Gerais after his workshop. Dr. Barreto’s works...

After a working vacation in Brazil in August, I took time off from my column to restart the academic year and host two friends and family therapists from Mexico City here in Montreal. I have several interviews lined up this fall, including Adalberto Barreto, MD on Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) in Brazil1 and Javier Vicencio, MD on his famil...

15º Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar ABRATEF Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil 16 de agosto de 2024 Workshop 19: “Trauma e Evento em Crianças, Jovens e Famílias” Palestrante: Professor Doutor Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD Ementa: Este workshop oferece aos participantes uma nova visão de trauma vivenciado por crianças e jovens à luz da t...

15º Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar ABRATEF Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil 16 de agosto de 2024 Conferência 4: “Por uma Psiquiatria e Terapia Social Clínica” Palestrante: Professor Doutor Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD Ementa: Aplicando a pedagogia do evento, esta conferência oferece aos participantes uma oportunidade de abranger nov...

My last two columns featured my two-part interview (Part 1, Part 2) with Dennis Palumbo, a Los Angeles psychotherapist and writer. Now, I am in Belo Horizonte in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil for the Brazilian National Congress of Family Therapy. Many Brazilian artists have inspired me, none more so than Adélia Prado whose poem, Com Licença Poé...

It is a pleasure to introduce Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT to the readers of Psychiatric Times. Dennis is a licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA where he specializes in treating people in the creative arts community of Hollywood. He is uniquely well-suited for this specialized work given his double, even triple skill sets as a former Hollywood sc...

This chapter complements the author’s “Looking at the West Looking at the East” in this volume. Using the playful metaphor of a “Sufi tavern,” the author takes the reader on a personal pilgrimage across the three Abrahamic faiths–Judaism, Christianity, and Islam–with their origins in the Middle and Near East and emanations southward to Africa, west...

This chapter, which complements “At the Sufi Tavern” by the author in this volume, offers two perspectives on Westerners turning to the East for religious and spiritual inspiration and renewal: looking elsewhere for what life means here. The first approach has been described (and criticized) as the search for what is global and universal across cul...

Introducing Dennis Palumbo – Psychotherapist and Writer It is a pleasure to introduce Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT to the readers of Psychiatric Times. Dennis is a licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA where he specializes in treating people in the creative arts community of Hollywood. He is uniquely well-suited for this specialized work given hi...

A Walk on the Grounds of an Asylum with a Marxist Psychiatrist Summer 1974. Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital (HPH). During the summer break of my studies in psychology at McGill University in Montreal, I was conducting a survey to catalogue the health and social services in Hamilton, Ontario, my hometown. We were looking at the annual report of the Ha...

Introduction by Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD Dr. John Farnsworth trained in sociology and is now a senior psychotherapist in New Zealand. We share mutual interests at the intersection of sociology, psychotherapy, and philosophy. Together, we are exploring French philosopher Alain Badiou’s theory of the event as a contemporary science of being...

The principal thesis of the sociology of knowledge is that there are modes of thought which cannot be adequately understood as long as the social origins are obscured.-Karl Mannheim 1 The value of creating and updating a lexicon for social psychiatry is not only an academic exercise but a task that necessarily follows from the fundamental shift tha...

A review of the impacts of the COVID-19 syndemic on child and youth health and mental health from a child psychiatry/mental health perspective and from a social psychiatry/public health perspective. The preventive measures that included confinement and social isolation have had devastating impacts on children's mental health, learning and social sk...

“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: An Innovative Course at the University of Montreal Expanding the medical model to embrace the humanities. Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/-psychiatry-and-the-humanities-an-innovative-course-at-the-university-of-montreal

This special issue of World Social Psychiatry on “Families, Family Interventions, and Social Psychiatry” brings together several communities of theory and practice under the rubric of social psychiatry. The first community is the work with families and their members suffering from mental illness in self-help groups and community support represented...

Maurizio Andolfi, MD, an internationally renowned Master Family Therapist and Social Psychiatrist, was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship in the World Association of Social Psychiatry for his many contributions to child psychiatry, family psychotherapy, and social psychiatry. This article offers an overview of Dr. Andolfi’s origins, profession...

My contention as a social psychiatrist and social philosopher is that the foundations of psychology and psychiatry – and the edifices that are built upon them, from theories to research paradigms to therapeutic interventions – are precisely upside down. Starting with the self, the individual, person and mind is to start building the roof rather tha...

No disciple of the wise may live in a city that does not have a physician, a surgeon, a bathhouse, a lavatory, a source of water, a synagogue, a school teacher, a scribe, a treasurer of charity funds for the poor, a court that has authority to punish.-Moses Maimonides 1 The medieval Jewish scholar Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, known to us by his Greek na...

Psychiatric Times Home page teaser: Embracing movement as theory Column: Second Thoughts Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/migration-maps-of-meaning-maps-of-belonging Migration – Maps of Meaning, Maps of Belonging May 22, 2024 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA The migrant has become the political figure of o...

Psychiatric Times Home page teaser: Experience is an end in itself, not measured in time or goals. Column: "Second Thoughts ... About Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy" Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/slow-thought-in-a-fast-city Slow Thought in a Fast City May 15, 2024 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCP...

“The Trouble with Normal”: Reading 2 Canadian Bestsellers - Gabor Maté’s "The Myth of Normal" and Jordan Peterson’s "Beyond Order" Challenging what is normal and the value of order.

I am writing this column in Marrakesh, Morocco where I am participating in the 20th World Congress of Dynamic Psychiatry, which took place from April 16-20th, 2024, sponsored by the World and the Moroccan Associations of Dynamic Psychiatry. And isn’t that a story in itself? Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry once so powerfully present in t...

This presentation addresses the question, “What is called therapy?” Echoes the question posed by Martin Heidegger (1954), Was heißt Denken? about the nature of thinking Q: “What is called therapy?” We will survey three topics to answer it: I. Accidental therapy II. What is called therapy? III. Changing the subject

Cette présentation passe en revue le cas d’Émile Nelligan, le poète le plus célèbre du Québec et le patient le plus célèbre de l’Hôpital St-Jean de Dieu (aujourd’hui l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal) dont nous fêtons le 150e anniversaire. Nous retraçons le parcours de Nelligan en tant que prodige poétique jusqu’à son internée...

This column approaches trauma from three perspectives-child and family psychiatry, trauma-informed care, and social psychiatry and philosophy. The tragedy of King Lear is briefly introduced as the framework for understanding tragedy and trauma. In closing, I argue for a nuanced approach to trauma that is selective but responsive to the ruptures tha...

Para el diseño del P r a c t i c u m 2 0 2 4 t u v i m o s l a o p o r t u n i d a d d e r e a l i z a r v a r i a s r e u n i o n e s c o n Vincenzo Dinicola y Adela Garcia en las q u e d e l i n e a m o s algunos objetivos que comprendían la involucración personal de invitados internacionales y nacionales por medio de un relato autobiográfico o d...

Es hora de que los terapeutas y activistas sociales mexicanos sigan esperando mejores prácticas mientras aceptan los límites de los modelos importados. Ya es hora de que los mexicanos formen a sus propios líderes a través de su propia pedagogía produciendo nuevas soluciones a sus propios problemas, sin magia ni maestros foráneos o locales.

This is a follow-up to my first column in Psychiatric Times on "The Gaza-Israel War: 'A Major Poetic Emergency.'" That emergency has become a full-blown crisis cascading into a catastrophe. There are two sides, multiple competing allegiances, many losers, and no winners.

This is my 4th column in my new series in Psychiatric Times, "Second Thoughts About ... Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy" This column is about polarization in social and political life and the slippery slope from what is to what ought to be, from facts to values.

My third column in the series, "Second Thoughts ... About Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy" in Psychiatric Times is called, “The Web of Meaning”: Family Therapy is Social Psychiatry’s Therapeutic Branch and explores family therapy as one of the three branches of social psychiatry

Psychiatric Times Column: Second Thoughts Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/against-the-myth-of-independence-for-a-more-convivial-and-interdependent-society Against “The Myth of Independence” – For a More Convivial and Interdependent Society March 27, 2024 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA No more fiendish...

In this inaugural column on “Second Thoughts… About Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy,” I want to express second thoughts about my profession in a warm and constructive way. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/social-psychiatry-comes-of-age

1. In these seven lessons for young therapists, based on practising clinical psychology, child psychiatry and psychotherapy for almost 50 years, I will survey what therapy is about and how it works, from behaviour therapy and family therapy to psychodynamic psychotherapy 2. These lessons integrate my work in psychiatry and psychotherapy with my Sl...

El Evento Como Desencadenante del Cambio Ontólogico por Vincenzo Di Nicola MASTER CLASS Practicum Internacional 2024 CRISOL Centro de Posgrado en Terapia Familiar Ciudad de México, México 8 y 9 de Marzo de 2024

Prefácio para: POLARIZAÇÃO: SINTOMA DE UMA DOENÇA SOCIAL Foreword for: POLARIZATION: SYMPTOM OF A SOCIAL MALADY Por/By Marcos de Noronha (Florianópolis: Editora Letras Contemporâneas, in press) "NO LIMIAR ENTRE IDEOLOGIA POLÍTICA E REALIDADE SOCIAL" "ON THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL REALITY" Vincenzo Di Nicola Professor tit...

Sou um psiquiatra e filósofo social ítalo-canadense (Di Nicola, 2023; Di Nicola, et al., 2013) trabalhando em Montreal. Devo ao meu pai italiano que fez a vida no Brasil (Di Nicola, 2018) e à minha família em São Paulo, bem como à família da minha esposa no Rio Grande do Sul, testemunhar os temas dessa polêmica sobre a polarização como moléstia soc...

Abstract: The overall objective of this webinar is to harness the powerful data of populational studies to patients in clinical practice. This is effectively a plan for applying social psychiatry to the clinic –a call for “Clinical Social Psychiatry.” This objective will be addressed through three goals with seven steps: (A) Review social psychia...

“Atado a una rueda de fuego”: Reflexiones sobre una vida en los estudios de trauma Abstracto Este breve ensayo aborda el trauma desde tres perspectivas: psiquiatría infantil y familiar, atención informada sobre el trauma y psiquiatría y filosofía social. Se presenta brevemente la tragedia del Rey Lear como marco para comprender la tragedia y el...

BORDERS, BELONGING, AND BETRAYALS: A Poetic Conversation Among a Palestinian Israeli Psychologist, an Italian Canadian Psychiatrist, and a Canadian United Church Pastor in a Time of War

This is a preprint in English of a chapter to appear in a book arising from the International Family Therapy Conference in Assisi, Italy, July 2023 ... V Di Nicola, J Farnsworth. Cambiando l’argomento, cambiando il soggetto: Dal sistema alla cultura all’evento [Changing the Subject: From System to Culture to the Event], in M Andolfi, A D’Elia, Eds...

Psychiatric Times Magazine The Gaza-Israel War: “A Major Poetic Emergency” A Poetic Conversation Among a Palestinian Israeli Psychologist, an Italian Canadian Psychiatrist, and a Canadian United Church Pastor in a Time of War November 20, 2023 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS H. Steven Moffic, MD Columnist’s Introduction Get ready for...

In these seven lessons for young therapists, a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 40 years' experience surveys what therapy is about and how it works, from behaviour therapy and family therapy to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Ranging from what to read and how to begin therapy, the lessons cover therapeutic temperaments and te...

This symposium convenes three leaders from across Canada to discuss their concerns, values and visions for Canadian psychiatry in the next decade. Douglas Urness considers continuing professional development (CPD), advocacy and collegiality as the starting point for continuity and renewal. Professional and public polarizations now make collegiali...

A Collection of Poems that Refutes the Binary in Favor of Imaginative Plurality Capital Psychiatry, 2023 TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE: Poems from Mile End By Vincenzo Di Nicola "A Collection of Poems that Refutes the Binary in Favor of Imaginative Plurality" Reviewed by Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT* Capital Psychiatry, Fall 2023, 4(4): 44-45. Accompanied by...

"The Sufi Tavern" - a poem from "TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE: Poems from Mile End" by Vincenzo Di Nicola (Singapore: Delere Press, 2023) that will accompany a a review of my book to appear in "Capital Psychiatry," Fall 2023: “A Collection of Poems that Refutes the Binary in Favor of Imaginative Plurality” Review by Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT

Schizophrenia has been called the “sublime object of psychiatry” (Woods, 2011) We may discern three eras in this history * Classification era: Emil Kraepelin (1893), Eugen Bleuler (1908), Karl Jaspers (1913), Kurt Schneider (1939) * Social context era: Norman Cameron, Gregory Bateson, R D Laing, Silvano Arieti * Family studies era: Mara Selvini Pal...

"From Populations to Patients: The Clinical Relevance of Populational Studies for Social Psychiatry & Public Health" * This paper is a contribution to a WASP Symposium on "Social Psychiatry and Public Mental Health" Overview and Goals: 1. Review social psychiatry’s powerful populational studies on psychiatric epidemiology and Social Determinant...

Saisir les enjeux de �la santé mentale chez �les jeunes et leurs familles VINCENZO DI NICOLA MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS Centre hospitalier universitaire Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont Moncton, Nouveau Brunswick Vendredi - 25 août 2023 PLAN I. L’épidemiologie de la santé mentale chez les jeunes II. Les déterminants sociaux de la santé III. Soins par...

Aula Inaugural do "Curso de Especilização em Psicoterapia Sistêmico-Integrativa" NÃO TENHA PRESSA: SETE LIÇÕES PARA JOVENS TERAPEUTAS VINCENZO DI NICOLA UFRGS, Infapa, ABRATEF, AGATEF, Relates, WASP Sexta-feira 18 de agosto de 2023 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Primeiro Congresso Brasileiro de Psiquiatria Social Pre-Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria Social em parceria com a Associação Brasileira de Terapia Comunitária Brasília, DF, Brasil 14 de agosto de 2023 Vincenzo Di Nicola Fundador e Presidente da Associação Canadense de Psiquiatria Social (CASP) e Presidente da Associação Mundi...

"Reductionism in Medicine and Psychiatry" Extract by Vincenzo Di Nicola from: "Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, the Humanities, and Neuroscience" (2021) by Vincenzo Di Nicola & Drozdstoy Stoyanov Published in: Capital Psychiatry Summer Issue, 2023, 4(2): 24-27. https://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=65729&i=796852&p=24&v...

"A Critical Reflection on the Past, the Present, and the Possible Futures of the Psychiatric Field" by Marcelo Pakman, MD Review of "Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, the Humanities, and Neuroscience" (2021) by Vincenzo Di Nicola & Drozdstoy Stoyanov Capital Psychiatry Summer Issue, 2023, 4(2): 44-45 https://lnkd.in/ef6v...

TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE: Poems from Mile End Contributors: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Poetry), Arsinée Donoyan (Photography), Stanzi Vaubel (Afterword) Description Two Kinds of People begins at a crossroads. Faced with two possible paths, what kind of person are you? Choose your direction, left or right, because there are only two kinds of people. At the c...

Abstract: Je suis convaincu que vos efforts contribuent à nous rapprocher du temps où la psychiatrie sera, enfin, humaine. I am convinced that your efforts will bring us closer to the day when psychiatry will, at last, become a truly human psychiatry. – Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Laing & Cooper’s Reason and Violence (1964) Nothin...

Social psychiatry is a discipline that focuses on the social dimension of mental health, mental illness, and mental healthcare. It uses concepts and methods of biological and social sciences, including sociology, psychology, and anthropology, to investigate social factors influencing and relevant to occurrence, expression, course, and care of menta...

Social psychiatry is a discipline that focuses on the social dimension of mental health, mental illness, and mental healthcare. It uses concepts and methods of biological and social sciences, including sociology, psychology, and anthropology, to investigate social factors influencing and relevant to occurrence, expression, course, and care of menta...

Social psychiatry is a discipline that focuses on the social dimension of mental health, mental illness, and mental healthcare. It uses concepts and methods of biological and social sciences, including sociology, psychology, and anthropology, to investigate social factors influencing and relevant to occurrence, expression, course, and care of menta...

V Di Nicola (Invited Keynote Speaker), “Social Psychiatry and Person-centered Medicine: Integrating Social Determinants (SDH) of Health and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) with Clinical Practice,” The Paradigm Change in Medicine: The Epistemological and Scientific Basis of Person-centered Medicine, Scuola Medica di Milano, Università Ambrosiana...

Social psychiatry is a discipline that focuses on the social dimension of mental health, mental illness, and mental healthcare. It uses concepts and methods of biological and social sciences, including sociology, psychology, and anthropology, to investigate social factors influencing and relevant to occurrence, expression, course, and care of menta...

Gun violence has become the leading cause of death of children in the United States. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and growing threat to women across all borders. As a child and family psychiatrist, I have dedicated my career to the health of children and families. As President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP), I...

Resumo do Workshop Nesse workshop, vamos expor a situação do terapeuta face à família e a família face ao trauma Esse workshop apresenta um novo modelo de trauma e de terapia depois de trauma com um novo conceito de mudança em terapia baseado sobre a filosofia do Evento (ou Acontecimento) de Alain Badiou (1994) Conceitos e estratégias chaves...

Simpósio AGATEF 2023 Caminhos da Parentalidade: A Terapia de Família e o Jurídico na mesma estrada “Um Tio em Casa – O Amigo da Minha Mãe” A Monoparentalidade e os Desafios do Apego na Cultura Familiar e na Sociedade A Monoparentalidade e �Os Desafios do Apego Na conclusão da palestra, os participantes saberão como … Definir e descrever as...

“Prisoners of the Pandemic: Social and Forensic Consequences of the Coronavirus” Abstract: My title is a play on the word “prisoners” that forensic psychiatry deals with but, in fact, hearkens back to Plato's analogy of the cave with its prisoners in a situation of sensory deprivation. The confinement and social distancing strategies adopted alm...

Pourquoi « le social » est essentiel pour un cadre intégrateur des sciences humaines ? De la crise en psychiatrie et la crise de la reproductibilité en sciences humaines aux Déterminants sociaux de la santé et au contexte socioculturel de toutes nos recherches Association des Étudiantes et Étudiants en Recherche sur la Santé Mentale (AEERSM) Cent...

Plenary Address: “Take Your Time: Seven Lessons for Young Therapists” In these seven lessons for young therapists, a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 40 years’ experience surveys what therapy is about and how it works, from behaviour therapy and family therapy to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Ranging from what to read a...

Panel Discussion: "What Can Psychotherapists Learn From the Social Sciences?" Chair: Césare Alfonso Panelists: Vincenzo Di Nicola Arvind Rajagopalan Renato Antunes dos Santos International Federation for Psychotherapy 23rd World Congress of Psychotherapy Casablanca, Morocco 10 February 2023 Points covered: My first contribution was my model of...

Learning Outcomes After this presentation, participants will be able to: 1. Appreciate how children’s developmental pathways interact with forensic issues in their lives and those of their families and caregivers. 2. Place forensic issues in a family context with a view to multigenerational attachment issues. 3. Employ an understanding of the...

The Friendship Bench Zimbabwe -“Healing the Healers” Project adapted its Problem-Solving Therapy model with the aim of providing psychosocial and mental health support for Health Care Workers(HCWs) in Zimbabwe.The intervention reached 4,966 HCWs consisting of nurses, doctors, nurses aids, pharmacists, radiographers and other auxiliary staff.Out of...

Lead presenter: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Montreal) “Convergent vs divergent trends in Social and Cultural Psychiatry” Presenters: Kam Bhui (Oxford): “Future of social-cultural nexus in personal, structural and syndemic care” Gabriel Ivbijaro (London): “Global Mental Health and primary care: A new approach” This symposium brings together leaders of t...

Address of the Incoming President of WASP “Recovery from Mental Illness: Challenges and Solutions from Across the Globe,” Joint Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) and the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych, UK), London, UK, Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Development and Its Vicissitudes – A Review of "Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary" Editors: Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, & Alberto Acosta Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, 2023, Vol 4, No 1, 17-19.

This article explores the parallels among postwar Britain's “cradle to grave” welfare state with its “social safety net,” especially the National Health Service, the consequent social realism and social upheaval in every sphere of the society, and the birth of the Social Psychiatry (SP) movement in London. From Bowlby's attachment theory, to the pi...

Background: Drawing on the history of social psychiatry (SP) and cultural psychiatry (CP), the author offers a way to discern the distinguishing features and identity of each branch of psychiatry. Issues: Are the histories and current practices of CP and SP mutually compatible and enriching or are they hiving off into separate domains? Proposition:...

"Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Lessons for the Global Mental Health Movement" by Noam Schimmel and Vincenzo Di Nicola Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, 2022, v3, no3, 9-10

CASP Workshop on Social Psychiatry Canadian Psychiatric Association 72nd Annual Conference Toronto, Ontario October 27 – 29, 2022 Title: Social Psychiatry Perspectives on the Health of Canadians: A Social Psychiatry Manifesto & Intimate Partner Violence Symposium Panel: 1. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Chair & Presenter, Montreal, QC) 2. Daphne Marussi...

Key points: Immigration policies that have positive effects on child mental health and promote healthy child development prioritize family preservation and child development, improve care and appropriate custody of children and ensure access to social safety nets for immigrant children and families. The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionately gr...

Cours – PST - 6511 - Université de Montréal « Psychiatrie à la croisée des chemins» Objectives 1. Identifier les bases de la crise en psychiatrie 2. Reconnaître les attitudes des psychiatres contemporains sur la crise en psychiatrie 3. Comprendre les lacunes critiques de la philosophie de la psychiatrie actuelle 4. Discuter trois possibilités...