‘Healing’ through harm: Examining affect in North American conversion therapies from 1910 to 2000

Andrea’s project examines Canadian and American patients’ and survivors’ lived experiences of the harmful practice of conversion therapy through the twentieth century. It asks how secular medical practitioners utilized and manipulated patients’ emotions as therapeutic tools in clinical contexts. Her analysis focuses on how practitioners in two different national contexts understood and responded to their…

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Promoting compassionate care in acute psychiatry with human-AI teams

Scientist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health The future deployment of AI-based clinical support in psychiatry is thought to rely on successful human-AI teaming, which involves AI enhancing human abilities to process information or make decisions, rather than replacing them. Unfortunately, there is little empirical work into how successful…

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