Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications (Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, where he conducts research on the place of culture in mental health and illness, medical and psychological anthropology, and the philosophy of psychiatry.

Carol M. Worthman is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. She uses a biocultural approach in comparative interdisciplinary research on health and human development in Africa, Asia, and the USA.

Shinobu Kitayama is Social Psychology Area Chair and Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan, where he conducts research on the mutual constitution of mental processes and culture.

Robert Lemelson is President of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He has been conducting psychological and visual anthropological research in Indonesia yearly for the past 20 years.

Constance A. Cummings is Project Director of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, which advances interdisciplinary research on the intersection of brain, mind, and culture. She is co-editor of Formative Experiences (2010) and Re-Visioning Psychiatry (2015), both with Cambridge University Press.