Nathan Ferguson is a Master’s candidate at Concordia University’s department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His undergraduate research focused on the various philosophical frameworks implicit in popular texts from the emerging somatic approach to psychiatric care. Drawing on Latourian themes in Science and Technology Studies, his undergraduate thesis offered an analysis of Bessel van der Kolk’s 2015 survey of somatic therapy, The Body Keeps the Score, and was awarded the 2021 award for best thesis in the department of Contemporary Studies at the University of King’s College. His graduate research involves investigating somatic care through ethnographic inquiry; his thesis project will investigate the conceptual and methodological links between somatic and transcultural approaches to psychiatry at a clinical consultation service in Montreal hospitals.