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Unpacking “the social”: a cultural–ecosocial systems approach

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This work was supported by a grant from the McGill-CFREF Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives Program, “Social Determinants of Health, Diversity and Representativeness in Current Neuroscience.”

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  1. Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

  2. Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute & Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Laurence J. Kirmayer

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Kirmayer, L.J. Unpacking “the social”: a cultural–ecosocial systems approach. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 59, 567–569 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-024-02625-1

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