Maurice Eisenbruch

Professor Maurice Eisenbruch MD MPhil (Cambridge), MEdSt, DPM, BS, FRAI, IFAPA, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, CertChildAdolPsych, AFBPsS, MAPS, MACE, is a medical anthropologist and transcultural psychiatrist. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University in Australia and Emeritus Professor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He has postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry, psychology and education and received further training in medical anthropology at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School.

Professor Eisenbruch has held appointments in France at the University of Paris, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. In Australia, he founded the Centre for Culture and Health at UNSW. He has been a consultant with UNESCO, WHO, and UNFPA, and has been on advisory editorial boards of various journals in the field of culture and health. He has been awarded International Fellowship of the American Psychiatric Association as well as Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.

Over the past several decades, Professor Eisenbruch has led ethnographic research in Cambodia on traditional healing, Buddhist psychotherapy, community mental health, responses to disasters, communicable diseases and the pandemic, and Gender-Based Violence including child sexual abuse. Professor Eisenbruch is also a psychodynamic psychotherapist with expertise in dealing with cultural, religious and spiritual issues, and can work directly with patients in half a dozen languages.