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. Their example was around eating disorders, and how ideas of what a woman’s body should look like circulate in mass media and have powerful impacts on people.
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