Vincenzo Di Nicola
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| Born | Vincenzo Giovanni Franco Di Nicola June 23, 1953 Collarmele, L'Aquila, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canadian European (Italian) |
| Education | McGill University (BA) University of London (MPhil) McMaster University Medical School (MD) European Graduate School (PhD) |
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| Children | Carlo Dante, Nina Mara, and Anita Sofia |
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| Fields | Clinical psychology |
| Institutions | University of Ottawa Queen's University Université de Montréal McGill University George Washington University Harvard Medical School |
| Thesis | Trauma and Event: A Philosophical Archaeology (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alain Badiou |
| Other academic advisors | Ronald Melzack, Ray Hodgson, Joel Elkes, Raymond Prince, William Yule, Richard Mollica, Martin Hielscher, Giorgio Agamben |
| Website | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vincenzo_Di_Nicola3 |
Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian psychologist, psychiatrist and family therapist, and philosopher of mind.
Di Nicola is a tenured Full Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine at the University of Montreal, where he founded and directs the postgraduate course on Psychiatry and the Humanities, and Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The George Washington University, where he gave The 4th Annual Stokes Endowment Lecture in 2013. He has taught in the Global Mental Health Faculty of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In 2001, Di Nicola was made Professor, Honoris Causa, of Faculdades Integradas do Oeste de Minas (FADOM) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Di Nicola was bestowed the Honorary Chair (Hon LD - Licentia Docendi) of Social Psychiatry and conferred the academic title of Honorary Professor (Hon MA Sc - Magister Scientiae ad Honorem) at the Milan School of Medicine of the Università Ambrosiana in 2021 for his contributions to the field of social psychiatry.