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Lillian Comas-Díaz: Culture is like the air we breathe — it really shapes everything, it permeates all life.

Editors Lillian Comas-Díaz Hector Y. Adames Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas “The past is key to the future.

What I mean by that is that I come from a family, a culture that has a tradition of healers and my two grandmothers were healers in the folk.

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What I mean by that is that I come from a family, a culture that has a tradition of healers and my two grandmothers were healers in the folk.!

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Lillian Comas-Díaz

Training Location(s):

PhD, University of Massachusetts (1979)

MA, University of Puerto Rico (1973)

BA, University of Puerto Rico (1970)

Primary Affiliation(s):

Transcultural Mental Health Institute, Washington DC (1986-present)

George Washington University School of Medicine (1986-present)

Yale University Department of Psychiatry (1979-1984)

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Career Focus:

Ethnocultural approaches to mental health; women's spirituality; intersecting identities; social justice; liberation psychology.

Biography

Although Dr.

Lillian Comas-Díaz was born in Chicago, Illinois, she moved to her parents' native Puerto Rico when she was 6 and lived there until her early twenties. Comas-Díaz feel