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null Ana Gómez-Carrillo, MD

Junior Scientist, RI-MUHC

Child Health and Human Development Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

 

Keywords

deprescription • cultural-ecosocial psychiatry • person-centered care • pragmatics of complexity in clinical practice • Inuit youth mental health • phenomenological psychiatry

Research Focus

My research advances integrative approaches to mental health that bridge cognitive neuroscience with cultural, social, experiential, and critical dimensions of psychiatric care. I’ve developed cultural eco-social systems approaches in research, clinical practice, and training, translating complex systems thinking into practical tools that treat humans as complex adaptive systems embedded in multiple environments. Central to my work is how people experience themselves, construct meaning through narratives, and develop selves, identities over time and how these insights can inform person-centered care. I apply this lens to (de)prescribing practices, mechanisms of withdrawal experiences, and the ways clinical narratives shape youth identity formation. I am also developing a phenomenological psychiatric framework to assess fine-grained changes in self-experience for clinical and contemplative science research. With Inuit youth in northern Quebec, I conduct community-engaged, arts-based suicide intervention and mixed-methods research on re-engagement in life, cultural wayfinding, and eco-social understandings of suicidality, agency, and resilience.

Selected Publications

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  • Montagne, A., Rousseau, C., & Gómez-Carrillo, A. (2026). The fine line between the cure and the illness: the risks of prescriptive emotionality and sociality for youth mental health. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 53. PMID: 41403718.

  • Gómez-Carrillo, A., Kirmayer, L. J., Aggarwal, N. K., Bhui, K. S., Fung, K. P. L., Kohrt, B. A.,... & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2023). Integrating neuroscience in psychiatry: a cultural–ecosocial systemic approach. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10(4), 296-304. PMID: 36828009.

  • Adel, L, Gómez-Carrillo, A, Mago, J, Lifshitz, M, Dumas, G. (2025) Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process. Physics of life reviews. 52, pgs 250–252. PMID: 39854913.

  • Gómez-Carrillo, A, Paquin, V, Dumas, G, Kirmayer, LJ. (2023) Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17, pgs 1–15. PMID: 36845417.

  • Norrmén-Smith, I. O., Gómez-Carrillo, A., & Choudhury, S. (2021). “Mombrain and sticky DNA”: the impacts of neurobiological and epigenetic framings of motherhood on women's subjectivities. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, 653160. PMID: 33928142.