Peter Soles Muirhead

Peter Soles Muirhead (MSc, Toronto; HBA, Simon Fraser), is a graduate trainee of the Predictive Care lab, and a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Toronto. As a medical ethnographer, Peter conducts long-term participant observation, clinician shadowing, and interviews in the CAMH emergency department, and contributes to the iterative analysis and write-up of mixed methods findings. Peter is currently interested in institutional research with the potential to limit coercive treatment and violence in psychiatric settings, and in community research with (ex-)psychiatric service users that attends empirically to why and how people leave care. The immediate future of this work includes disseminating findings from both tracks to a range of audiences. Peter has conducted ethnographic and archival research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Moncton, NB.

Publication Highlights

Forthcoming

Examining Systemic and Interpersonal Bias in Violence Risk Assessments for Acute Psychiatric Care.
JAMA Network Open (Under Review).
Authors: Dharma, C., Bondy, S., Sikstrom, L, Zaheer, J., Muirhead, P., Maslej, M.

Thresholds and Violence in Acute Psychiatry: Implications for Practice from a Computational Ethnographic Study.
(In preparation).
Authors: Muirhead, P., Wang, Y., Bucago, C., Maslej, M, Sikstrom, L.

2023

On Leaving Well: Pragmatism in Distance from Psychiatry. (Paper presentation).
AAA/CASCA 2023: Transitions, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2023, November 15-19.
Authors: Muirhead, P.

2017

Psychiatric Temporality and its Moral Agents [Book Review].
Current Anthropology 58 (3), 429-430.
Authors: Muirhead, P.