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Laurence J. Kirmayer

Laurence J. Kirmayer

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Canada
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
102
Citations
40050
World Ranking
81
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Laurence J. Kirmayer is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on social psychology and clinical psychology as prominent subfields.

The scientist's work emphasizes topics related to mental health treatment and access, cultural differences and values, cultural competency in health care, indigenous health, education, and rights. Additional areas of interest include community health and development, migration, health and trauma, and mental health and psychiatry.

Laurence J. Kirmayer has contributed to various academic publications. Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry (2020), The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laurence J. Kirmayer include:

  • G. Eric Jarvis
  • Ana Gómez-Carrillo
  • Shinobu Kitayama
  • Carol M. Worthman
  • Roberto Lewis-Fernandéz

Laurence J. Kirmayer's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Transcultural Psychiatry
  • Culture Medicine and Psychiatry
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology

They have authored book publications with Cambridge University Press, including the titles Culture, Mind, and Brain (2020) and Healing and the Invention of Metaphor (projected for 2025).

Laurence J. Kirmayer has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;Lavanya Narasiah;Marie Munoz;Meb Rashid

  • Cultural variations in the clinical presentation of depression and anxiety: implications for diagnosis and treatment.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Culture and somatization: clinical, epidemiological, and ethnographic perspectives.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;Allan Young

  • The mental health of Aboriginal peoples: transformations of identity and community.

    Laurence J Kirmayer;Gregory M Brass;Caroline L Tait

  • Somatization and the recognition of depression and anxiety in primary care

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;James M. Robbins;Michael Dworkind;Mark J. Yaffe

  • Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives

    Laurence J Kirmayer;Stéphane Dandeneau;Elizabeth Marshall;Morgan Kahentonni Phillips

  • Healing traditions: culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples

    Laurence Kirmayer;Cori Simpson;Margaret Cargo

  • Rethinking cultural competence

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Rethinking Historical Trauma

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;Joseph P. Gone;Joshua Moses

  • Three forms of somatization in primary care: prevalence, co-occurrence, and sociodemographic characteristics.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;James M. Robbins

  • Somatoform Disorders: Time for a New Approach in DSM-V

    Richard Mayou;Laurence J. Kirmayer;Greg Simon;Kurt Kroenke

  • Evidence-based clinical guidelines for immigrants and refugees

    Kevin Pottie;Christina Greenaway;John Feightner;Vivian Welch

  • Cultural variations in the response to psychiatric disorders and emotional distress.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Explaining medically unexplained symptoms.

    Laurence J Kirmayer;Danielle Groleau;Karl J Looper;Melissa Dominicé Dao

  • The Body's Insistence on Meaning: Metaphor as Presentation and Representation in Illness Experience

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Syrians affected by armed conflict.

    G. Hassan;P. Ventevogel;H. Jefee-Bahloul;A. Barkil-Oteo

  • Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden Values in Biomedicine

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Cultural Affordances: Scaffolding Local Worlds Through Shared Intentionality and Regimes of Attention.

    Maxwell J. D. Ramstead;Samuel P. L. Veissière;Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Community Resilience: Models, Metaphors and Measures

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;Megha Sehdev;Rob Whitley;Stéphane F. Dandeneau

  • Attributions of common somatic symptoms.

    James M. Robbins;Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Beyond the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry': cultural biology, discursive psychology and the ironies of globalization.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Rousseau
Cécile Rousseau McGill University
Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Roberto Lewis-Fernández Columbia University
Rob Whitley
Rob Whitley McGill University
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Andrew G. Ryder
Andrew G. Ryder Concordia University
Devon E. Hinton
Devon E. Hinton Harvard University
Joel Paris
Joel Paris McGill University
Joseph P. Gone
Joseph P. Gone Harvard University
Kevin Pottie
Kevin Pottie University of Ottawa
Phyllis Zelkowitz
Phyllis Zelkowitz McGill University

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