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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

His research ranges from Indigenous youth resilience and narrative medicine to the diagnostic metaphorssuch as chemical imbalance or traumathat reshape identity and possibility. L aurence Kirmayer is one of the most influential figures in cultural psychiatry today.

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Family Traditions and the Inheritance of “Madness”

Mad in America

Epigenetics refers to the way external factors, such as trauma or stress, can alter the expression of genes without changing the genetic code itself. Epigenetics refers to the way external factors, such as trauma or stress, can alter the expression of genes without changing the genetic code itself. But not all traditions are benign.