I am a psychologist (McGill U, U London),psychiatrist (McGill U, UOttawa), family therapist (Fellowship, McGillU; Milan Centre for the Study of the Family, Milan, Italy; Institute of FamilyTherapy, Rome, Italy, now Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia), and philosopher (European Graduate School)specializing in eating disorders, trauma, migration and mental health, andphilosophical, values-based critiques of all these models and practices.
Mymain orientation is as a child and family specialist, as a social and culturalpsychiatrist, and as a global mental health specialist.
Iam the founder & President of the Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry(CASP) and President-Elect of the World Association for Social Psychiatry(WASP).
Communications/website, Education,Meeting/ASS (Advanced Studies Seminar),Meeting/other/webinars, e-mail andvideo-conferencing mentoring,Publications/CUPseries, Publications/other/journals, columns, blogs, etc., Research/philosophy,Research/other/[pleasespecify],Services/person-centered,Services/teamwork
Evidence-based practice/Critique of; Ethics, both practitioner of medical ethics and critic of;
Medical humanities/I reach a postgraduate course on Psychiatry and the Humanities at the University ofMontreal; Philosophy of psychiatry, psychology and the human/social sciences
Child Health/Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist, trained in paediatrics and child & adolescentpsychiatry
Global health,Mental health/General,Mental health/I am an earlycontributor to Global Mental Health and the Co-Founder of the Global MentalHealth & Psychiatry Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association
Other: familytherapy/relational theory and therapy, relational psychology