OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: The Precarious Space for Mourning: Sick Leave as an Ambiguous Topic in Bereaved Parents’ Accounts of the Return to Everyday Life After Reproductive Loss	27
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	17
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	15
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	12
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	11
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	10
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	10
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	10
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	9
Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration	9
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	9
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	9
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	8
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
Negotiating SHI-FEI and shifei: Pursuing a Moralist Self in China’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment Programs	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	7
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	7
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	7
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	6
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	6
Cultivating Doctors’ Gut Feeling: Experience, Temporality and Politics of Gut Feelings in Family Medicine	6
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	6
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	6
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	6
Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter	6

Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	5
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	5
Psychotheraputic Dimensions of an Islamic-Sufi-Based Rehabilitation Center: A Case Study	5
Facing and Overcoming Pain Through Scientific Evidence: The Imperative of Exposure as a Psychological Technique for Cognitive Behavioral Treatments in Buenos Aires, Argentina	5
Under Pressure: Living with Diabetes in Cairo	5
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	4
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
“Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	4
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	3
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	3
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda	3
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	3
SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo	3
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	3
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	2
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India	2
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
Correction to: “Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
“Breaking Down”: Afflictions and Treatments During Times of Crisis in Buenos Aires	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
Introduction to Special Issue: Psychiatry as Social Medicine	2
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	2
“I Heard of PrEP—I Didn’t Think I Needed it.” Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	2
"The University Lives Anxiety and De-pression": Diagnostic Uses and Affective Negotiations in Mental Health Care Services for University Students in Chile	1
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	1

They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1
The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict	1
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	1
Intercultural Training in Tense Times: Cultural Identities and Lived Experiences Within a Community of Practice of Youth Mental Health Care in Montréal	1
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	1
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	1
The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire	1
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
The Influence of Culture on the Cause, Diagnosis and Treatment of Serious Mental Illness (Ufufunyana): Perspectives of Traditional Health Practitioners in the Harry Gwala District, KwaZulu-Natal	1
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	1
‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	1
Before and After Prozac: Psychiatry as Medicine, and the Historiography of Depression	1
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1
Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations	1
Tension and Other Idioms of Distress Among Slum Dwelling Young Men: A Qualitative Study of Depression in Urban Bangladesh	1
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	1
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	1