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

Article	Citations
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	21
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	14
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	14
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	14
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	12
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	11
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	11
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	11
Connections on the Line: Interactions Between Care, Expertise, and Anonymity in a Suicide Hotline in Hong Kong	10
Navigating Hope and Despair: The Agonizing Boat Journeys of the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees	10
Experience of Personal Recovery from Mental Disorders Among West African Refugees: A Clinical Case Study	10
Revenge Fantasies Expressed Through Drawings and Narratives: Insights from Indian Perspectives Based on Gender and Religion	10
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	9
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	8
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	7
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	7
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	7
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	7
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	7
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	6
Migrants’ Access to Mental Health Services in Italy: The Case of the Transcultural Psychiatric Operational Unit of Catania in Eastern Sicily	6
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	6
A Time to Die: Mexican Life Debates and the Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care	5
Transgressive Care. The Specters of Physicality in Global Mental Health	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
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	5
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	5
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	5
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	4
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	4
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
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
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	3
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	3
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	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
Okweraliikirira and Okwenyamira: Idioms of Psychological Distress Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda	3
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	3
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	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
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	3
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	3
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	3
“My Body Will Remember What My Mind Wants to Forget”: Towards a Bio-cultural Vulnerability Model of Veteran Multi-morbidity	3
Liberation Medicine: Past, Present, and Future	3
Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	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
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	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
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
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	2
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India	2
Confronting the Illness of Recognition: Pain and Reparation Amongst Citizens Mutilated During Protests in Present-Day France	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2

The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology	1
Correction: Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	1
Correction: “Here it is not about learning Evidence-Based Medicine; it is about Context-Based Medicine”: Pragmatic Approaches to Liberation Medicine	1
The Social Drama of Mental Health Professionals who are also Former Mental Health Service Users	1
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	1
Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD	1
The Knowledge of Neglect: Reflections of Mothers Experiencing Homelessness in Dublin on Social Care Interventions Involving Their Children	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	1
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1
Ethnography from Medical Elsewheres	1
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	1
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
"The University Lives Anxiety and De-pression": Diagnostic Uses and Affective Negotiations in Mental Health Care Services for University Students in Chile	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	1
They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	1
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	1
The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning	1
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
Julia E.H. Brown: The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-risk Conditions	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
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	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
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	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
Imitation, Rivalry, and Escalation: Rethinking Adolescent Self-Harm Through Mimetic Theory	1
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	1