Georgery Ciceron is a clinical psychologist and PhD Student in Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at Concordia University in Montréal through the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP). His academic and professional trajectory brings together clinical psychology, mental health, sexuality, digital culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to human experience.

Ciceron’s research interests are situated at the intersection of mental health, culture, technology, embodiment, sexuality, and sensory experience. During his master’s degree at UFJF, he investigated controversies surrounding the sexuality of bariatric patients through digital social networks. His research adopted a qualitative approach informed by Actor-Network Theory, examining the relationships between human and non-human actors, including patients, social media platforms, algorithms, and digital content. He also drew on the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault and Byung-Chul Han to examine how bodies, sexuality, health, and subjectivity are negotiated within digital environments.

Georgery Ciceron’s current doctoral research focuses on voice-hearing, senses, spirituality, religious beliefs, and cultural meaning-making. His project, “Religious Beliefs, Spiritualities and Voice-Hearing: A Comparative Study between Canada, Brazil and Haiti,” explores how people who hear voices understand and give meaning to these experiences within different cultural, religious, and spiritual contexts. He is particularly interested in the ways in which experiences commonly understood within psychiatric frameworks may acquire different meanings when interpreted through spiritual, religious, and cultural perspectives.

Methodologically, he is interested in qualitative and interpretive approaches that allow participants’ lived experiences and meaning-making processes to remain central to the research. He is particularly interested in approaches that can facilitate dialogue between psychology, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and science and technology studies.

As a Visiting researcher at Concordia University, he is particularly interested in exploring how sensory experience, perception, embodiment, culture, and meaning-making can contribute to broader interdisciplinary understandings of mental health and voice-hearing. His goal is to develop research that brings psychological, cultural, and socio technical perspectives into dialogue.

Ciceron is also interested in building international academic collaborations around these themes, particularly through comparative and interdisciplinary research involving Canada, Brazil, Haiti, and other cultural contexts.