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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	26
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	19
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	16
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	15
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	14
Revenge Fantasies Expressed Through Drawings and Narratives: Insights from Indian Perspectives Based on Gender and Religion	11
Navigating Hope and Despair: The Agonizing Boat Journeys of the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees	10
Connections on the Line: Interactions Between Care, Expertise, and Anonymity in a Suicide Hotline in Hong Kong	9
Experience of Personal Recovery from Mental Disorders Among West African Refugees: A Clinical Case Study	8
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	8
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	8
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	8
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	8
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	7
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	7
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
Migrants’ Access to Mental Health Services in Italy: The Case of the Transcultural Psychiatric Operational Unit of Catania in Eastern Sicily	7
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	6
Exploring Barriers to Recovery Amongst Women with Psychosis: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis	6
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	6
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	6
Facing and Overcoming Pain Through Scientific Evidence: The Imperative of Exposure as a Psychological Technique for Cognitive Behavioral Treatments in Buenos Aires, Argentina	5
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	5
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	5

Transgressive Care. The Specters of Physicality in Global Mental Health	5
A Time to Die: Mexican Life Debates and the Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care	5
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	4
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Negative Capability May Solve Psychiatry’s Credibility Crisis	4
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
Changes to Refugee Mental Health During and After a Cross-Sector PTSD Intervention: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study About the Influence of Social Support, Life Events, and Agency	4
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	4
What Crisis? Competing Narratives of Mental Health in US Higher Education	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	3
Seasoned Veterans of the Waiting Room: Stories from Working-Class Neighbourhoods of Delhi, India	3
Navigating the Unknown: Mental Pain, Uncertainty, and Self-Isolation in Bali and Java	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
Liberation Medicine: Past, Present, and Future	3
Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life	3
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	3
Psychiatric Oppression in Women’s Lives: Creative Resistance and Collective Dissent	3
Adult ADHD in Cultural Ecosocial Niches: Exploring the Rise of Adult ADHD in Context	3
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	3
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	3
Okweraliikirira and Okwenyamira: Idioms of Psychological Distress Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda	3
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
Contagious Counter-Worlds: On the Idea of an Alternative in German Primary Healthcare	2
“My Body Will Remember What My Mind Wants to Forget”: Towards a Bio-cultural Vulnerability Model of Veteran Multi-morbidity	2
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	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
Pharmacological Microcontroversies and Civilizational Grammars Around ADHD in Chile	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
Resistance and Reproduction: Mental Illness Stigma Observed in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital	2
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	2
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	2
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	2
Tukdam, Different Ontological Bodies, and Making Tibetan Deaths Visible	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	2
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
The Way That Leads Among the Lost by Angela Garcia: Picador, 2024, 272 pp.	2
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	2
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	2
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	2
Confronting the Illness of Recognition: Pain and Reparation Amongst Citizens Mutilated During Protests in Present-Day France	2

The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
Cultural Countertransference of Young Clinicians Facing a State of Possession: A Cultural Case Study	2
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	1
Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD	1
The Social Drama of Mental Health Professionals who are also Former Mental Health Service Users	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
“The Territory Has Its Ways of Warning Us”: Cultural Practices and Belief Systems of Two Indigenous Peoples in Colombia and Their Role in Public Mental Health	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	1
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	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
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Imitation, Rivalry, and Escalation: Rethinking Adolescent Self-Harm Through Mimetic Theory	1
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	1
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	1
Decolonizing Mental Health in Algeria: Integrating Local Beliefs, Culture, and Islamic Principles for Culturally Responsive Care	1
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	1
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
Seeing Oneself Seize: A Case Study on the Affordances of a Video-Based Diagnostic Encounter for a Patient with Functional Seizures	1
The Knowledge of Neglect: Reflections of Mothers Experiencing Homelessness in Dublin on Social Care Interventions Involving Their Children	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
"The University Lives Anxiety and De-pression": Diagnostic Uses and Affective Negotiations in Mental Health Care Services for University Students in Chile	1
Julia E.H. Brown: The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-risk Conditions	1
Ethnography from Medical Elsewheres	1
Correction: “Here it is not about learning Evidence-Based Medicine; it is about Context-Based Medicine”: Pragmatic Approaches to Liberation Medicine	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	1
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	1
Between Scopic Jouissance and Incorporation: Mukbang as a Digital Site of Psychic Tension	1
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations	1
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
Searching for Dwelling: Autism, Adolescence, and the Threat of “No Man’s Land”	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Invisible Care in a Low-Income Setting: Reflecting on Family Caregiver Fatigue in Dementia Care	1
They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1
Correction: Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	1