Department Member, Anthropology
About
Alberto Sánchez-Allred, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. He also coordinates the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre, a project of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. He earned his doctoral degree in anthropology in 2009 from the University of California, Berkeley. For his dissertation he investigated how contemporary authors rework the nearly century-old literature diagnosing Mexicans as subject to a national "inferiority complex". Continuing his interest in documenting emerging lifestyles and their pathologies, he now researches the nexus between digital communication technologies and mental health. In particular he is looking at Internet and mobile phone compulsive disorders, as well as the Internet and mobile phones as technologies for knowledge transfer and psychiatric intervention.
