Brief Biography
Vincenzo DI NICOLA, MPhil MD PhD FRCPC DFAPA FCPA, trained as a psychologist, child psychiatrist, family psychotherapist, and philosopher.
He is based in Montreal where he practices and teaches, and consults internationally as a visiting professor, educator, and specialist in the areas of child and family psychiatry, trauma, and social and cultural psychiatry.
Dr. Di Nicola is a tenured Full Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry & Addictions Medicine at the University of Montreal in Montreal, QC, Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at The George Washington University, in Washington, DC, Honorary Professor of Psychology & Law, FADOM, Brazil, is on the teaching faculty of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at the Harvard Medical School, and a partner of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health & Social Services at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. He is Founder and President of the Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry (CASP) and President-Elect of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP).
Dr. Di Nicola is Co-Founder and Past Chair of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Caucus on Global Mental Health & Psychiatry and twice elected President of the APA Quebec & Eastern Canada District Branch.
Dr. Di Nicola has received numerous fellowships and awards in learned societies, including Distinguished International Member of the Bulgarian Association of Sciences & Arts (BASA), and authored A Stranger in the Family (W.W. Norton, 1997), Letters to a Young Therapist (Atropos, 2011, winner of Quebec’s Camille Laurin Prize), and with D Stoyanov, Psychiatry in Crisis (Springer, 2021).