Alasdair Simon Donald

Alasdair Simon Donald is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst trained through Harvard Medical School’s Cambridge program and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. His work integrates Freudian/Kleinian psychoanalytic principles with modern psychiatric practices, particularly in acute inpatient settings.

His research interests focus on psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and the intersection of anthropological knowledge with psychoanalytic theories of the mind. He is currently developing papers on concepts of risk and violence in psychiatry and plans future work on gender presentation and politics in clinical psychiatry.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned. His professional address is at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in Boston.