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. The metaphor of trauma now means emotionally violent events that leave their marks on people. Oftentimes, we’re able to keep going.
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