The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Mad in America
MAY 21, 2025
His research ranges from Indigenous youth resilience and narrative medicine to the diagnostic metaphorssuch as chemical imbalance or traumathat reshape identity and possibility. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social. I have no mental health problems.
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