[Sehefac] Fwd: Dep of Psychiatry Grand Rounds: 1/21 @ noon, virtual, Towards a Social Movement Psychiatry

[dana.simmons at ucr.edu]

Dear all,
Please see this fantastic talk by SEHE affiliate Kevin Gutierrez, today!

*University of California Riverside School of Medicine*

*Department of Psychiatry & Neurosciences: Grand Rounds*

*Towards a Social Movement Psychiatry*

*Presenter: Kevin Gutierrez, MD, MS*



*January 21, 2026*

*12–1PM PST**, via Zoom:
**https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97223479638?pwd=SfDp5CR4V2tH7bvaxDBzy81i2mnWxk.1
<https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97223479638?pwd=SfDp5CR4V2tH7bvaxDBzy81i2mnWxk.1>*

*Meeting ID: **972 2347 9638*

*Passcode:* *754059*



*Description*: The current escalation in militarization of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting immigrant and minoritized communities
in the United States has revealed limitations in the traditional approach
to the practice of psychiatry. This presentation will elucidate those
limitations and propose a radical reorientation of psychiatry towards
"a social movement psychiatry," which draws its empirical basis from extant
literature on social connectedness and burnout within community organizers.
This presentation will provide pedagogical, research, and interdisciplinary
collaborative pathways towards a social movement psychiatry



*Learning objectives:*

   - Identify how current US authoritarianism reveals the limitations of
   the traditional biological and hyper-individualistic approach to psychiatry
   - Propose a radical reorientation of psychiatry towards
   “a social movement psychiatry”
   - Identify empirical precursors
   to social movement psychiatry (social connectedness, burnout in community
   organizers)
   - Propose pedagogical and research pathways towards
   a social movement psychiatry

*Presenter bio:*

Kevin Gutierrez, MD, MS, is an assistant clinical professor of health
sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University
of California Riverside School of Medicine. He is a board-certified
psychiatrist and a psychotherapist trained in individual and group
psychodynamic psychotherapy who completed his psychiatry residency at NYU
Langone Medical Center where he was a Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA)/American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Minority Fellow. He was selected amongst MS2 students across the country
for the inaugural cohort of the June Jackson Christmas Medical Student
Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He
completed his Masters in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University where he
was also an instructor of diasporic literature and decolonial theory. He
completed his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Ohio State University in
Spanish (with emphasis in Latin American and Iberian Studies).  He has
taught numerous courses in critical race theory and decolonial theory
to psychiatry residents, medical students, undergraduates, and graduate
students. His work examines decolonial and liberatory methodologies
within psychiatry, specifically towards conceptualizing
a social movement psychiatry. His work on medical education
and psychiatry has been published in the *New England Journal of Medicine,
Academic Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, *and* Daedalus.*


*Kevin Gutierrez, MD, MS*
Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
University of California Riverside School of Medicine

*Clinic schedule:*
Monday: 8AM - 5PM PST
Tuesday: 8AM - 5PM PST
Wednesday: 8AM - noon PST
Thursday: 8AM - 5PM PST
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