Vincenzo DiNicola, M.Phil., M.D., Ph.D., F.A.P.A., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and relational therapist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After studies in clinical psychology, medicine, paediatrics and psychiatry, Di Nicola trained and collaborated in family therapy with Mara Selvini Palazzoli in Milan and Maurizio Andolfi in Rome and, more recently, in global mental health with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. He has held clinical and teaching appointments at the universities of Ottawa, Queen's and McGill and is an Honorary Professor of Law in Minas Gerais, Brazil and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author of "A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families and Therapy" (New York & London: W.W. Norton) and "Letters to a Young Therapist: Relational Practices for the Coming Community" (New York & Dresden: Atropos Press). Di Nicola is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal and recently received a doctorate in philosophy (Summa Cum Laude) with Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou and at the European Graduate School.

Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, relational therapist, and philosopher of psychiatry in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

After studies in clinical psychology, medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry, Di Nicola trained and collaborated in family therapy with Mara Selvini Palazzoli in Milan and Maurizio Andolfi in Rome. Later in his career, he trained in global mental health with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy Summa cum laude for his thesis, "Trauma and Event," based on the work of and supervised by Alain Badiou, at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

He has held clinical and teaching appointments at the universities of Ottawa, Queen's and McGill and is an Honorary Professor of Psychology & Law in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Currently, Di Nicola is Tenured Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal; Clinical Professor at The George Washington University; Honorary Chair & Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Medical School of Milan at Ambrosiana University; and has been on the Global Mental Health teaching faculty of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

Di Nicola was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS, Canada's highest honour for scholars in health sciences), a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (DLFAPA) which also gave him a Distinguished Service Award, a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (DFCPA), and a Distinguished International Fellow of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & Arts (BASA). He is the author of "A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families and Therapy" (New York & London: W.W. Norton) and "Letters to a Young Therapist: Relational Practices for the Coming Community" (New York & Dresden: Atropos Press, which was awarded the Prix Camille-Laurin of the Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec/Camille Laurin Prize of the Quebec Psychiatric Association), and with Drozdstoj Stoyanov, "Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of At the Crossroads of Social Science, the Humanities, and Neuroscience" (New York: Springer Nature, 2021).

Di Nicola is twice Past President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Quebec & Eastern Canada District Branch; Founder & President of the Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry (CASP); and President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP).

His work includes literary fiction: "The Unsecured Present: 3-Day Novels & Pomes 4 Pilgrims" with a Foreword by jan jorgensen and an Afterword by Thomas Zummer (New York & Dresden: Atropos Press, 2012) and "Two Kinds of People: Poems from Mile End" with photography by Arsinée Donoyan and an Afterword by Stanzi Vaubel (Singapore: Delere Press, 2023).