Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health presentation by Janis Jenkins, University of California San Diego.

Janis H. Jenkins, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCSD.  She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and post-doctoral training at Harvard. She has been PI for several NIMH-funded studies.  She is Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and has held Visiting Professorships worldwide.  Her research is in global mental health among adults and adolescents. Her interdisciplinary research teams have carried out studies with families in homes and communities to identify social and cultural dimensions of relapse/recovery for psychosis, depression, and psychological trauma.  Currently, she is PI for a study of adolescent mental health in Mexico.  She has mentored numerous postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and medical students.  She has 80 peer-reviewed publications, edited volumes (Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity, with RJ Barrett), and Pharmaceutical Self: Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology). A recently published monograph is Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. Currently, she is completing a monograph co-authored with Thomas Csordas, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment.

As usual, the seminar meets from 10am-11:50am in William James Hall Room 1550.