Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (Zoom)

Date: 

Friday, March 4, 2022, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

"Complicated Empathy in Clinical Ethnography: Vulnerability, Care, and Doing Ethical Work when the Whole Self Shows Up"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Rebecca Lester, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Remote Access Information:

To join by computer:

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95117756735

Please note: This event requires a password to attend. Please email Dr. Sadeq Rahimi (sadeq_rahimi@hms.harvard.edu) with a brief introduction of yourself to receive the meeting password.

Speaker Bio:

Rebecca LesterPhD, MSW, LCSW, is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis with research interests in mental health, gender and sexuality, and religion.  She is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, personality disorders, mood disorders, and gender/sexuality issues.  Her most recent book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (2019) was awarded a Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.  She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry and past-president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.