Vincenzo Di Nicola

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

Inaugural Meeting of the Caucus on Medical Humanities in Psychiatry at the APA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, USA. Co-Founders and Appointed Co-Chairs: Vincenzo Di Nicola - University of Montreal & Andrei Novac - University of California-Irvine Special Founding Members: Joël Des Rosiers - University of Montreal James Lamont Griffith - The Geo...

"Recovery in Trauma-informed Care with Children & Families" Symposium Recovery in Psychiatry: A Challenge for Social Reintegration World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, DFAPA, FCAHS University of Montreal The presentation will sensitize participants to appreciate key issues for working with traumatiz...

36. V Di Nicola, Guest Editorial – A Clarifying Moment: The War on Ukraine and the Unraveling of the Global Order. Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Spring-Summer 2022, 3(2): 7-8.

JMW Bradford, V Di Nicola. The War Against Ukraine – A Social Psychiatry Perspective. Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Spring-Summer 2022, 3(2): 9.

WORKSHOP�� The Manifesto in the21st Century - From Art to Politics to Therapy The Indeterminacy Festival University of Malta Concordia University University of Buffalo April 25, 2022 11:00 – 2:00 pm EST * Vincenzo Di Nicola // “The Manifesto in the 21st Century: From Art to Politics to Therapy” Since the 19th century, the manifesto has bee...

Abstract 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 domain...

"The Kite’s Argument with the String": A Brief Foray into the Bewitchment of Language By Way of an Autobiographical Poem From the editor's introduction: Vincenzo Di Nicola through the tale of "The Kite’s Argument with the String," gives us an overview of his life and career from the perspective of his polyglot background. Capital Psychiatry Sp...

This is my presentation to the Webinar and Townhall Meeting of the Family & Culture Special Interest Group of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) Saturday, April 2, 2022

« On vit déjà dans l’avenir de l’illusion de Freud : La foi au risque de la psychanalyse ou la psychanalyse au risque de la foi? » “We Are Already Living in the Future of Freud’s Illusion: Faith Confronted by Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalysis Confronted by Faith?” Pr. Vincenzo Di Nicola Université de Montréal L’argument L’auteur – psychiatre...

Une question cruciale pour notre domaine est de savoir comment définir la psychiatrie sociale contemporaine. Dans cette présentation, j’aborde cette tâche en la décomposant en trois questions majeures pour la psychiatrie sociale et je conclus par un appel à l’action, un manifeste pour la psychiatrie sociale du XXIe siècle : (1) Qu’y a-t-il de soc...

Titre : « Un manifeste pour la psychiatrie sociale du XXIe siècle » Résumé : Une question cruciale pour notre domaine est de savoir comment définir la psychiatrie sociale contemporaine. Dans cette présentation, j’aborde cette tâche en la décomposant en trois questions majeures pour la psychiatrie sociale et je conclus par un appel à l’action,...

Foreword to Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation (pp. ix-xix) By Daniel Tutt Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2022 The Palgrave Lacan Series ISBN 978-3-030-94069-0 ISBN 978-3-030-94070-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94070-6 Link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-030...

‘Tempest-Tost’: Of Tempests, Boats, and Lifesavers – The New Language of the Plague Abstract In this third essay as a physician-philosopher for Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review (see Di Nicola, 2021a, 2021b), I explore how we are talking about COVID-19 in the light of biomedicine, planetary health, history and literature, and its impact a...

The Social Phenomenology of R.D. Laing: A Re-Appraisal of R.D. Laing, His Relationship to J.-P. Sartre, and the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, DLFAPA, FCAHS University of Montreal Psychiatric Fellow, AAPDPP American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP) 2022-2023 Virtual Presentation...

M Stohlman-Vanderveen (Interviewer), V Di Nicola, “The Crisis of Psychiatry Is a Crisis of Being: An Interview with Vincenzo Di Nicola,” Recently Published Book Spotlight, Blog of the American Philosophical Association, October 8, 2021. https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/10/08/the-crisis-of-psychiatry-is-a-crisis-of-being-an-interview-with-vinc...

D Tutt (Interviewer), V Di Nicola, “Psychiatry Today: An Interview with Vincenzo Di Nicola,” Jouissance Vampires Podcast, December 29, 2021. Also on: Study Group on Psychoanalysis and Politics, Dialogues on Theory on twitter: https://twitter.com/torsion_groups/status/1476176670889582593, and Youtube: youtu.be/5n4VSdM4QYw * We are joined by Dr....

A Dhar (Interviewer), V Di Nicola, “The Crisis in Psychiatry and the Slow Way Back: Interview with Vincenzo Di Nicola,” Spotlight Interview: Rethinking Mental Health, Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice, December 22, 2021. Available online in print and audio: https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/crisis-psychiatry-way-back-inter...

Invited Keynote Address: "From Chekhov to Pavlov, From Vygotsky to Luria: A Brilliant Foundation, A Promising Future – Russian Adventures in the Humanities, Medical Psychology and Psychiatry" All-Russia Interuniversity Scientific Conference “Mental Health: Modern Trends & Prospects” All-Russian Mental Health Awareness Program for University Stude...

1. Syndemic identity of COVID-19 pandemic: the experimental child" 2. Limits of the available anti COVID-19 vaccines 3. Genotoxicity of anti-COVID-19 vaccines

Abstract Background: Responding to the IASP Conference theme of “Conflicts, Culture and Social Wellness,” the author proposes Social Psychiatry’s role in promoting belonging and unity (Di Nicola 2013, 2018). Drawing on the history of Social Psychiatry (SP) and Cultural Psychiatry (CP), the author offers a schema of the distinguishing features an...

Abstract Not only is the coronavirus crisis a natural laboratory of stress offering social psychiatrists a unique historical opportunity to observe its impact on entire populations around the world, but the responses to the crisis by international health authorities, such as the WHO, along with national and local educational institutions and healt...

STRANGERS IN A CEMETERY: A Letter from Prison, A Voice from the Grave In this apprehensive tale of philosophical fiction, Vincenzo Di Nicola takes the reader on a visit to Rome’s famous Protestant Cemetery where strangers to Italy’s mainstream Catholic culture interact above and below ground in a mix of Romantic poetry, radical politics, and psyc...

Immunity or Impunity? The Origins of Biopolitics and the Coronavirus Syndemic An essay-review of Roberto Esposito’s trilogy Bios – Communitas – Immunitas Abstract This essay-review by a physician-philosopher addresses the origins of the debate over immunity in the coronavirus crisis by examining the terms immunity and community in law and politi...

Invited Plenary Presentation: "Family Matters: The Family as a Resource for the Mental, Social, and Relational Well-Being of Youth Migrants, Asylum Seekers, & Other Displaced Populations" Plenary Session: "The Mental Health and Well-Being of Children from Families Who Are Refugees, IDPs and Migrants" Co-Chairs: Prof. Helen Herrman (Australia)...

Family & Culture Special Interest Group Webinar World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) Inaugural Meeting and Webinar of the Family & Culture Special Interest Group Co-founders and co-chairs: Vincenzo Di Nicola and Riyadh Al-Baldawi World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) President: Roberto Lewis-Fernández "Family & Culture in Ti...

My contribution to the WASP-WPA Interorganizational Symposium (prerecorded) ... World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) at the 21st Virtual World Congress of Psychiatry, Cartagena, Colombia, October 16-21, 2021: KS Gaind (Chair, University of Toronto) V Di Nicola (Panelist, University of Montre...

This Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry (CASP) Symposium highlights the Congress theme, showcasing Canadian social psychiatric innovations. The presentations span Canada’s two largest provinces, Ontario and Quebec, addressing: complementary urban and rural, and community- and hospital-based practices; contrasting in-person versus telemedicin...

Considering the main theme of the Congress “Innovations in Social Psychiatry Across the World,” our symposium, which is organized by the WASP Section of Family Intervention Programs, will address both themes proposed by the congress: Psychosocial Interventions in Psychiatry and Mental Health Users and Care Givers and their role in improving the rec...

Abstract In a series of original and pathbreaking publications, Jaswant Singh Neki (1925-2015), a leading Indian Sikh scholar and psychiatrist (Sikhnet contributors, 2021; Wikipedia contributors, 2021), proposed the gurū-chelā (master-disciple) relationship to create a new paradigm for the therapeutic relationship, employing an accessible cultural...

In a series of original and pathbreaking publications, Jaswant Singh Neki (1925-2015), a leading Indian Sikh scholar and psychiatrist (Sikhnet contributors, 2021; Wikipedia contributors, 2021), proposed the gurū-chelā (master-disciple) relationship to create a new paradigm for the therapeutic relationship, employing an accessible cultural idiom tha...

Immunity or Impunity? The Origins of Biopolitics and the Coronavirus Syndemic An essay-review of Roberto Esposito’s trilogy "Bios – Communitas – Immunitas" Abstract This essay-review by a physician-philosopher addresses the origins of the debate over immunity in the coronavirus crisis by examining the terms immunity and community in law and poli...

"There is no such thing as society": The pervasive myth of the atomistic individual in psychology and psychiatry Follow-up and reply to commentaries on “A social psychiatry manifesto for the 21st century” by Vincenzo Di Nicola Abstract The author follows up and replies to the three invited commentaries on his social psychiatry manifesto publi...

La Psychanalyse à l’Entrecroisement des Disciplines Psychoanalysis at the Intersection of Disciplines 1ère colloque inaugural de la MADP 1st Inaugural Conference of the Moroccan Association of Dynamic Psychiatry (MADP) Centre « ERHSO » Oujda, Maroc Sous la patronage de son excellence M. le Wali d'Oujda - Angad Le samedi 02 octobre 2021 Table...

"There is no such thing as society": The pervasive myth of the atomistic individual in psychology and psychiatry Follow-up and reply to commentaries on “A social psychiatry manifesto for the 21st century” by Vincenzo Di Nicola Abstract The author follows-up and replies to the three invited commentaries on his Social psychiatry manifesto publish...

"Yours, Mine and Ours" Discussion of "Romania's Children/Adolescents' Total Health Symposium" The discussion highlights key themes across all three symposium presentations - "Global problem" "Determinants of health" "Links & associations" "Impacts" - and draws conclusions and implications.

"Philosophy and Psychiatry from the Standpoint of the Event" Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola University of Montreal Contribution to the Plenary Symposium at the XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry Bucharest, Romania - 15 July 2021 "Why Psychiatry Needs - and Cannot Avoid - Philosophy" This symposium convokes a distinguished international panel of p...

XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bucharest, Romania 14-17 July 2021 Plenary Symposium on Psychiatry and Philosophy Symposium Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Psychiatry Needs – and Cannot Avoid – Philosophy” If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it...

This is the abstract of the inaugural speech on the occasion of the founding of the Licentia Docendi in Honorem – the Honorary Chair – in Social Psychiatry at the Scuola Medica di Milano della Università Ambrosiana conferred upon Professor Vincenzo Di Nicola, who is given the academic title of Magister ad Honorem – Honorary Professor. The speech...

Abstract: This is the inaugural speech on the occasion of the founding of the Licentia Docendi in Honorem – the Honorary Chair – in Social Psychiatry at the Scuola Medica di Milano della Università Ambrosiana conferred upon Professor Vincenzo Di Nicola, who is given the academic title of Magister ad Honorem – Honorary Professor. The speech will...

This is a blurb for the book of poetry, "Days of Empty Travel" by Andrei Novac, MD, DFAPA

Une carrière en pédopsychiatrie Présentation invitée par le Groupe d'Intérêt en Pédiatrie (GIP) avec le Groupe d'Intérêt en Psychiatrie (GIPSY) de la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Montréal pour discuter une carrière en pédopsychiatrie avec un survol de ma propre carrière avec une emphase sur les traumatismes et l'avenir de la pédopsychia...

Changelings: Children, Culture and Trauma Vincenzo Di Nicola Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma Global Mental Health Course Educational Objectives The presentation will sensitize participants to appreciate basic questions about working with traumatized children and their families across culture to create trauma-informed care: Why development m...

COLLABORATING FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY Bridging Divides and Healing Wounds Virtual SSPC 42nd Annual Meeting April 22, 2021 - April 24, 2021 Abstract Background. A critical issue for socio-cultural psychiatry is how to define contemporary Social Psychiatry. Issues of Focus. Advances in Social Psychiatry include: (1) epidemiologic studies [social d...

This essay by a physician-philosopher compares the COVID-19 pandemic to Plato’s allegory of the cave, where prisoners see only shadows cast on the walls of their cave and know them as their only reality. Raised there since childhood, they experience sensory deprivation, impacting their brains and their minds, limiting their perceptions and their un...

Abstract Not only is the coronavirus crisis a natural laboratory of stress offering health and social care services a unique historical opportunity to observe its impact on entire populations around the world, but the responses to the crisis by international health authorities, such as the WHO, along with national and local educational institution...

Abstract Not only is the coronavirus crisis a natural laboratory of stress offering health and social care services a unique historical opportunity to observe its impact on entire populations around the world, but the responses to the crisis by international health authorities, such as the WHO, along with national and local educational institution...

Review of "Trauma and Transcendence"

World Psychiatric Association World Congress – Bangkok, Thailand 2021 WPA-WASP Inter-organizational Symposium “The Experimental Child”: Developmental Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Children and the Future of Social Psychiatry Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA, FCPA Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal Presiden...

This is an advance review of "Psychiatry in Crisis" by Andrei Novac, MD, DFAPA, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California - Irvine

This is an advance review/blurb of "Psychiatry in Crisis" by Thomas Fröhlich, MD, PhD, Vice President of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, Western Europe

Advance Review of Psychiatry in Crisis, At the Crossroads of Social Sciences, the Humanities, and Neuroscience, ("... a critical survey of the history of modern psychiatry") Springer International Publishing 2021, Authors: Vincenzo Di Nicola, Drozdstoj Stoyanov

Social Unrest and Mental Health World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) Symposium at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting 2021 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, DFAPA, FCPA President, CASP; President-Elect, WASP Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, QC Learning objectives To understand the association between...

Psychology and psychiatry have generated multiple models with competing claims. Changes that are part of knowledge accumulation come under different names – paradigms, theories, and revolutions. Medical and social sciences are replete with binary oppositions and false dichotomies which distract real progress. A framework is outlined for breaking do...

The Case of Ellen West by Ludwig Binswanger [The case of Ellen West: An anthropological-clinical study (trans. by Werner M. Mendel and Joseph Lyons). In: Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology (Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri F. Ellenberger, Eds.). New York: Basic Books, pp. 237–364, 1958] is at once the founding case of existen...

This chapter offers an overview of the interplay of the mind-brain problem and paradigm formation in psychiatry and the way in which it contributes to controversies and shifts in the dialogue across the disciplines that constitute mental health knowledge. Special attention is paid to implications of Cartesian dualism, eliminative materialism, and r...

Philosophy as therapy – both linguistic philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition and the critical theory of continental philosophy offer philosophy as a kind of treatment for our ills yet fall short of resolving psychiatry’s problems. Leon Eisenberg (1986) once bemoaned a dichotomy he framed as brainlessness (psychoanalysis without brain science)...

This chapter inverts the logic of anti-psychiatry to investigate four key critical psychiatrists whose contributions represent “psychiatry against itself.” They are Italian psychiatric reformer Franco Basaglia, Martinican revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, French psychoanalytic rebel Jacques Lacan, and Scottish radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing...

Whereas Protagoras proclaimed that, “Man is the measure of all things,” today’s science has become the all-purpose measure that Stephen Jay Gould (The mismeasure of man. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996) characterized as “the mismeasure of man.” Much social science and biomedical research is marred by scientism and methodolatry. Psychiatry’s criti...

Psychiatry is explored in terms of knowledge gaps in this chapter with main components addressing taxonomy – terminology and nomenclature – and methods. The first component is projected onto a crisis of identity and the second component onto a crisis of confidence. Each discipline engaged in psychiatry adheres to its epistemic monologue, comprised...

This chapter addresses a great challenge for psychiatry as a medical discipline, namely, its hybrid disciplinary status. On one hand, it belongs to nomothetic and, on the other, explanatory domains of science although it is not properly identified with either of them – thus constituting the so-called explanatory gap. In effect, psychiatric diagnosi...

The prospectus of this volume on Psychiatry in Crisis starts with a survey of typical reactions to the authors’ investigations, from denial of a crisis in psychiatry to its trivialization, opening a discussion of the reductive models of psychiatry and how this creates an impoverished language of psychiatry. The authors then state their major leitmo...

This chapter reviews the history of academic psychology and psychiatry, using trauma as a focus. The history of psychology revolves around the question of consciousness, including the method of introspection, addressing the issue, “What is the subject?” The history of modern psychiatry, on the other hand, revolves around the crucial question of the...

Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Winter 2021, 2(1): 11. Book Review Section Psiquiatría en la medicina [Psychiatry in Medicine] Edited by Bernardo Ng, Enrique Chavez-Léon, and Martha Ontiveros Uribe Ciudad de México: APM Ediciones y Convenciones em Psiquiatría 2016, pp. 695 Reviewed by Vincenzo Di Nicola

The author follows up and replies to the three invited commentaries on his social psychiatry manifesto published in the first issue of World Social Psychiatry, emphasizing points of agreement with three practical examples of how research, practice, and policymaking can benefit from social psychiatry – or falter without implementing its powerful and...

"The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Modern Morality Play: Challenges for Social Psychiatry" by Vincenzo Di Nicola WASP Newsletter December 2020, pp. 3-5 World Association of Social Psychiatry

The Coronavirus Epidemic as a Modern Morality Play: Challenges for Social Psychiatry Vincenzo Di Nicola Article in the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) Newsletter December 2020

Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review Book Review Section Psiquiatría en la medicina [Psychiatry in Medicine] Edited by Bernardo Ng, Enrique Chavez-Léon, and Martha Ontiveros Uribe Ciudad de México: APM Ediciones y Convenciones em Psiquiatría 2016, pp. 695 Vincenzo Di Nicola

Highlights of The Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry (CASP) At the 23rd WASP World Congress of Social Psychiatry Bucharest, Romania — October 25–28, 2019 Journal de l'AMPQ (Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec) December 2020 https://browserclient.twixlmedia.com/0e2b6ea5a5ed054522a51c41065db68c/2020-d%C3%A9cembre-en-journal/15-en-...

Faits saillants de l'Association canadienne de psychiatrie sociale (ACPS) Au 23e congrès de la WorldAssociation of Social Psychiatry Bucarest, Roumanie — 25-28 octobre 2019 Publié au Journal de l'AMPQ (Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec) Décembre 2020 Par Vincenzo Di Nicola https://browserclient.twixlmedia.com/0e2b6ea5a5ed054522a5...

Abstract The story of Antonella illustrates the way in which cultural and other values impact on the presentation and treatment of eating disorders. Displaced from her European home culture to live in Canada, Antonella presents with an eating disorder and a fluctuating tableau of anxiety and mood symptoms linked to her lack of a sense of identity....

"Une affaire de famille" Présentation plénière au congrès : 21ème Journée Régionale du Réseau Francophone Profamille - "Programme Profamille de psychoéducation des familles, Région Maroc: Réalisations et obstacles avant et pendant la pandémie Covid-19"

SSPC 41st Annual Meeting September-October 2020 Workshop “A Person Is A Person Through Other Persons” – How Culture & Identity Are Constructed Through Relationships & Belonging Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA, FCAPA Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Cultural Family Therapist University of Montreal Montreal, QC, Canada Anjali J...

World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) Webinar "Mental Health, Well Being, and Social Psychiatry: Challenges Imposed by the Covid-19 Pandemic" Contribution: "Mental Health and Well Being in the Covid-19 Era" By Vincenzo Di Nicola, President-Elect, WASP Objectives: 1. To offer an overview of the mental health consequences of the Covid...

"Psychiatrie à la croisée des chemins" Présentation au cours PST - 6511 - Psychiatrie et sciences humaines Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal 10 septembre 2020

V Di Nicola. Review of A Manifesto: Healing a Violent World, RF Mollica, et al. Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Autumn 2020, 1(3): 6-7. This beautifully crafted volume, published in 2018, announces a manifesto for healing a violent world. It is in fact, not one but three manifestos – “Healing a Violent World,” “Healing the Healer,” and...

Famílias de Difícil Manejo em Tempos Difíceis: Experiências e Intervenções Workshop com Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA Eu apresentarei meu trabalho com famílias de manejo difícil nos tempos difíceis da pandemia e da crise sócio-econômica. O confinamento impõe limitações de movimento, nas relações familiares com a f...

Julio Arboleda-Flórez Born 1939 in Puerto Wilches, Colombia; died Kingston, Ontario, Canada March 30, 2020 Julio Arboleda-Flórez, Past President and Honorary Fellow of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP), died in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on March 30, 2020. Prof. Arboleda-Flórez was Professor Emeritus and Past Chair of the Departme...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic is unfolding into a global event on a massive scale, one of the most significant ones since the Second World War. The COVID‑19 pandemic is affecting most countries across the world, regardless of their Human Development Index (the UN’s HDI). The pandemic is still evolving and growing after beginning...

The COVID-19 pandemic creates a cascade of social and mental health consequences for children, adolescents, and their families. After reviewing the known pediatric and epidemiological data on children, we discuss key features of children's mental health in response to this crisis, their specific needs, and the impacts of social distancing, confinem...

With the emergence of the COVID‑19 pandemic, humanity experienced, at the same time, social confinement as a way to protect itself and the vulnerability of human life and institutions. In the past, overcoming calamities was done by being together, and now, with this pandemic, the form of protection is the opposite, social isolation. Over the past 2...

Revista Universo Psi Taquara, 2020, 2(1): 123-133 PENSAMENTO LENTO, UM MANIFESTO Vincenzo Di Nicola (Tradução para o português de Patrícia Manozzo Colossi ) RESUMO Este ensaio filosófico apresenta o Pensamento Lento como parte do Movimento Lento (Honoré, 2004), iniciado na Itália em 1986 com o protesto da Comida Lenta (Petrini, 2004). O au...

Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Sciences, the Humanities, and Neuroscience Authors: Di Nicola, Vincenzo, Stoyanov, Drozdstoj Offers a critical survey of the history of modern psychiatry Co-authors have dual training in scientific psychiatry and philosophy Written in accessible language with capsule summaries of key areas of the...

Editorial - "Crisis? What Crisis?” The Crisis of Psychiatry Is a Crisis of Being Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA Bulgarian Journal - Mental Health, 2020, Volume, Number 1: 4-10. http://stenobooks.com/userfiles/editor/file/1%20Crisis%5B1%5D.pdf Abstract This editorial addresses the existential crisis in the field of psychiatry...

Intimate strangers – Episodes with my father. (In English with a bilingual English-Romanian Abstract & Introduction by D Cozman) Psihiatru.ro, 2020, XVI (61): 42-47. Abstract In this memoir told in four episodes, the author, an Italian child psychiatrist and family psychotherapist who lives in Canada, revisits his episodic encounters with his...

World Social Psychiatry Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic Growing Up in a Pandemic: Biomedical and Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis on Children and Families Vincenzo Di Nicola, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal & Nadia Daly, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Harvard Medical School Abstract The COVID-19 pa...

Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review Special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH & PSYCHIATRY REVIEW, Vol. 1 No. 2, Spring/Summer 2020, pp. 6-7. "A Canadian Perspective on the Biomedical and Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Families" Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA This brief ar...

APA Symposium - APA 2020 Meeting on Demand - The Social Determinants of Health: Essential Elements of Healthcare Quality & Outcomes - Author: Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA Montreal University Institute of Mental Health University of Montreal President, Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry Title: The Longest Shadow: L...

Discussion - Symposium: "Change during Psychodynamically-Oriented Treatment" APA Annual Meeting on Demand First Discussion recorded April 17, 2020 with a second Discussion recorded April 27, 2020 Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA I was invited to be the discussant of this symposium on change i in psychodynamic psychotherapy by...

"A Social Psychiatry Manifesto" Vincenzo Di Nicola MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA Psychiatric Grand Rounds VA Boston Healthcare System Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Boston, MA, USA April 22, 2020 - 12:00-13:00 pm Purpose Statement To give an overview of the history and current status of Social Psychiatry with some applications of...

Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review Special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic "A Canadian Perspective on the Biomedical and Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Families" Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA An overview of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, with an emphasis of its impact on children and fam...

"The Impact of the Pandemic on Child & Family Relationships" Vincenzo Di Nicola Society for the Study of Psychiatry & Culture (SSPC) Contribution to SSPC Webinar Round Table Discussion "Social and Cultural Insights into COVID-19 Experiences" Anna Fiskin (Chair), Vincenzo Di Nicola, Bonnie Kaiser, Francis Lu, Alan Teo Thursday, April 16, 2020

World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) "WASP Position Statement on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic" WASP Executive Committee 15 April 2020 WASP Website: https://waspsocialpsychiatry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/WASP-Position-Statement-COVID-19.pdf

Intimate strangers "There is no dark fate or bright destiny, only things that happen ..." By chance, I grew up without a father. As an adult, I chose to meet him. Through the prism of this event, life slowly made sense. Publication Date: 2020 Publication Name: Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/there-is-no-dark-fate-or-bright-destiny-only-th...

Di Nicola V. The global south: An emergent epistemology for social psychiatry. World Soc Psychiatry 2020;2:20-6 Di Nicola V. The global south: An emergent epistemology for social psychiatry. World Soc Psychiatry [serial online] 2020 [cited 2020 Mar 21];2:20-6. Available from: http://www.worldsocpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2020/2/1/20/281130 Abstract...

World Association of Social Psychiatry. Professor António Guilherme Ferreira, MD (1937–2020), president of the world association of social psychiatry(1988–1992). World Soc Psychiatry 2020;2:48-50 Obituary: Professor António Guilherme Ferreira, MD (1937–2020), President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry(1988–1992) Brief Bio‑Sketch With...