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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion	31
“Thinking Too Much”: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa	29
Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context	20
Transcultural Psychiatry: Cultural Difference, Universalism and Social Psychiatry in the Age of Decolonisation	15
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	14
Feeling Seen, Being Heard: Perspectives of Patients Suffering from Mental Illness on the Possibility of Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands	13
“A Free People, Controlled Only by God”: Circulating and Converting Criticism of Vaccination in Jerusalem	12
Tension and Other Idioms of Distress Among Slum Dwelling Young Men: A Qualitative Study of Depression in Urban Bangladesh	12
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	12
Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care	11
From Lay Depression Narratives to Secular Ritual Healing: An Online Ethnography of Mental Health Forums	10
Negotiating Engagement, Worthiness of Care and Cultural Identities Through Intersubjective Recognition: Migrant Patient Perspectives on the Cultural Formulation Interview in Danish Mental Healthcare	9
Depression, Deprivation, and Dysbiosis: Polyiatrogenesis in Multiple Chronic Illnesses	9
Cultivating Doctors’ Gut Feeling: Experience, Temporality and Politics of Gut Feelings in Family Medicine	9
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	8
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	8
Channeling: A Non-pathological Possession and Dissociative Identity Experience or Something Else?	8
Breathing Together: Children Co-constructing Asthma Self-Management in the United States	8
‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure	8
Politics of Plasticity: Implications of the New Science of the “Teen Brain” for Education	7
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection	7
Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration	6
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	6
Doodling as a Measure of Burnout in Healthcare Researchers	6
Psychotheraputic Dimensions of an Islamic-Sufi-Based Rehabilitation Center: A Case Study	5

In Their Own Words: Using Open-Ended Assessment to Identify Culturally Relevant Concerns among Kenyan Adolescents	5
The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice	5
On Exclusionary Violence and Its Subcutaneous Consequences: A Commentary	5
What Can the Chemical Hold?: The Politics of Efficacy in the Psychedelic Renaissance	5
“We Need Other Human Beings in Order to be Human”: Examining the Indigenous Philosophy of Umunthu and Strengthening Mental Health Interventions	4
‘A Smaller Mask’: Freedom and Authenticity in Autistic Space	4
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	4
“Guys with Big Muscles Have Misplaced Priorities”: Masculinities and Muscularities in Young South Korean Men’s Body Image	4
‘I am Dying a Slow Death of White Guilt’: Spiritual Carers in a South African Hospice Navigate Issues of Race and Cultural Diversity	4
‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’: Reworking Constructions of Childhood and Trauma Through the Arts in Rwanda	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
Introduction to Special Issue: Psychiatry as Social Medicine	4
Evenings with Molly: Adult Couples’ Use of MDMA for Relationship Enhancement	4
Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Psychological Suffering of Refugee Patients in Brazil	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
‘The High Five Club’: Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia	3
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	3
Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer	3
The Hair in the Garland: Hair Loss and Social Stress Among Women in South India	3
Explanatory Models of (Mental) Health Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices	3
Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-revolutionary Egypt	3
Therapists’ Experiences of Working with Ethnic Minority Females with Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Study	3
Trauma and Police Violence: Issues and Implications for Mental Health Professionals	3
Synchronization and Syncopation: Conceptualizing Autism Through Rhythm	3
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	3
Intangible Cultural Heritage: ‘Curating’ the Human	3
Psychosis Without Meaning: Creating Modern Clinical Psychiatry, 1950 to 1980	3
Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory	3
The New ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder Guidelines in Japan: Findings and Implications from Key Informant Interviews	3
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	3
Material Environments and the Shaping of Anorexic Embodiment: Towards A Materialist Account of Eating Disorders	3
Laboratory Happiness or Human Flourishing: The Empirical Science of Wellbeing in Phenomenological Perspective	2
Cognitive Optimisation and Schizophrenia: Assembling Heterogeneity, Overcoming the Precariousness of Life, and Challenging Public Health Policies in Psychiatry in France	2
Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology	2
Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine	2
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	2
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
Psychological Theory and the Illusion of Scientific Prediction	2
Intercultural Training in Tense Times: Cultural Identities and Lived Experiences Within a Community of Practice of Youth Mental Health Care in Montréal	2
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	2
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	2
Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages	2
Before and After Prozac: Psychiatry as Medicine, and the Historiography of Depression	2
‘White Child Gone Bankrupt’—The Intersection of Race and Poverty in Youth Fathered by UN Peacekeepers	2
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	2
Hallucinations and Hallucinogens: Psychopathology or Wisdom?	2
The Phenomenology of ‘Solved’ Reincarnation Stories Among Druze in Israel: Private Self, Symbolic Type and Daily Life	2
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda	2
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	1

Concluding Remarks	1
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	1
Idea Technology and Ideology	1
Negotiating SHI-FEI and shifei: Pursuing a Moralist Self in China’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment Programs	1
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	1
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	1
Majnūn or Mental Disorders: Between Cultural Traditions and Western Psychology in Jordan	1
Getting On in Gotham: The Midtown Manhattan Study and Putting the “Social” in Psychiatry	1
The Eschucha (Listen) Podcast Project: Psychosocial Innovation for Marginalized Mexican Youth and Young Adults	1
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
Between Solidarity and Conflict: Tactical Biosociality of Turkish Egg Donors	1
Thriving Despite the Odds: Digital Capital and Reimagined Life Projects Among Mexican College Students During COVID-19	1
Vulnerabilities Prompting Use of Technology and Screen by Mothers of Autistic Children in India: Lived Experiences and Comparison to Scientific Literature	1
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	1
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	1
Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School	1
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	1
Mixed-Method Investigations Uncovering Tension, PTSD Symptoms, and Trauma-Related Difficulties Among Indian Women from Slums Reporting Gender-Based Violence	1
The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict	1
Organized Care as Antidote to Organized Violence: An Engaged Clinical Ethnography of the Los Angeles County Jail System	1
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	1
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire	1
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	1
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	1
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	1
Unraveling Reactionary Care: The Experience of Mother-Caregivers of Adults with Severe Mental Disorders in Catalonia	1
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine	1
The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1
The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction	1