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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mukbang and Disordered Eating: A Netnographic Analysis of Online Eating Broadcasts	29
Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion	25
“Thinking Too Much”: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa	25
Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context	14
Transcultural Psychiatry: Cultural Difference, Universalism and Social Psychiatry in the Age of Decolonisation	13
“A Free People, Controlled Only by God”: Circulating and Converting Criticism of Vaccination in Jerusalem	12
Feeling Seen, Being Heard: Perspectives of Patients Suffering from Mental Illness on the Possibility of Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands	12
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	12
Do Doctors Differentiate Between Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death? A Qualitative Study into the Views of Psychiatrists and General Practitioners	11
Authentic Self and Last Resort: International Perceptions of Psychiatric Neurosurgery	11
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	11
Existential Displacement: Health Care and Embodied Un/Belonging of Irregular Migrants in Norway	10
Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care	9
From Lay Depression Narratives to Secular Ritual Healing: An Online Ethnography of Mental Health Forums	9
Similarities and Differences in Interoceptive Bodily Awareness Between US-American and Japanese Cultures: A Focus-Group Study in Bicultural Japanese-Americans	9
“Asylum is the Most Powerful Medicine”: Navigating Therapeutic Interventions in Limbo	9
Tension and Other Idioms of Distress Among Slum Dwelling Young Men: A Qualitative Study of Depression in Urban Bangladesh	9
Breathing Together: Children Co-constructing Asthma Self-Management in the United States	8
Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review	8
Depression, Deprivation, and Dysbiosis: Polyiatrogenesis in Multiple Chronic Illnesses	8
Channeling: A Non-pathological Possession and Dissociative Identity Experience or Something Else?	7
Cultivating Doctors’ Gut Feeling: Experience, Temporality and Politics of Gut Feelings in Family Medicine	7
Working on and with Relationships: Relational Work and Spatial Understandings of Good Care in Community Mental Healthcare in Trieste	7
Negotiating Engagement, Worthiness of Care and Cultural Identities Through Intersubjective Recognition: Migrant Patient Perspectives on the Cultural Formulation Interview in Danish Mental Healthcare	7
Clinicians’ Perspectives on Diagnostic Markers for Depression Among Adolescents in India: An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study	6

Doodling as a Measure of Burnout in Healthcare Researchers	6
In Their Own Words: Using Open-Ended Assessment to Identify Culturally Relevant Concerns among Kenyan Adolescents	5
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	5
Psychotheraputic Dimensions of an Islamic-Sufi-Based Rehabilitation Center: A Case Study	5
What Can the Chemical Hold?: The Politics of Efficacy in the Psychedelic Renaissance	5
‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure	5
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Prevalence and Risk Factors for Prenatal Depression in Spain and Mexico	5
“We Need Other Human Beings in Order to be Human”: Examining the Indigenous Philosophy of Umunthu and Strengthening Mental Health Interventions	4
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	4
Politics of Plasticity: Implications of the New Science of the “Teen Brain” for Education	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
Psychosis Without Meaning: Creating Modern Clinical Psychiatry, 1950 to 1980	3
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	3
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection	3
The Hair in the Garland: Hair Loss and Social Stress Among Women in South India	3
Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration	3
Material Environments and the Shaping of Anorexic Embodiment: Towards A Materialist Account of Eating Disorders	3
Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Psychological Suffering of Refugee Patients in Brazil	3
Trauma and Police Violence: Issues and Implications for Mental Health Professionals	3
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	3
‘I am Dying a Slow Death of White Guilt’: Spiritual Carers in a South African Hospice Navigate Issues of Race and Cultural Diversity	3
The Power of Shared Embodiment: Renegotiating Non/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care	3
Embodied Memory, Affective Imagination, and Vigilance: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan	3
Therapists’ Experiences of Working with Ethnic Minority Females with Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Study	3
Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-revolutionary Egypt	3
On Exclusionary Violence and Its Subcutaneous Consequences: A Commentary	3
Evenings with Molly: Adult Couples’ Use of MDMA for Relationship Enhancement	3
Explanatory Models of (Mental) Health Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices	3
Social Exclusion and Care in Underclass Japan: Attunement as Techniques of Belonging	3
Medication by Proxy: The Devolution of Psychiatric Power and Shared Accountability to Psychopharmaceutical Use Among Soldiers in America’s Post-9/11 Wars	2
‘A Smaller Mask’: Freedom and Authenticity in Autistic Space	2
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	2
Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages	2
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	2
Before and After Prozac: Psychiatry as Medicine, and the Historiography of Depression	2
Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer	2
Cognitive Optimisation and Schizophrenia: Assembling Heterogeneity, Overcoming the Precariousness of Life, and Challenging Public Health Policies in Psychiatry in France	2
Synchronization and Syncopation: Conceptualizing Autism Through Rhythm	2
Medical Education and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness in the Philippines	2
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	2
The Phenomenology of ‘Solved’ Reincarnation Stories Among Druze in Israel: Private Self, Symbolic Type and Daily Life	2
‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’: Reworking Constructions of Childhood and Trauma Through the Arts in Rwanda	2
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
Introduction to Special Issue: Psychiatry as Social Medicine	2
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	2
Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology	2
The New ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder Guidelines in Japan: Findings and Implications from Key Informant Interviews	2
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	2

Hallucinations and Hallucinogens: Psychopathology or Wisdom?	2
‘The High Five Club’: Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia	2
“Guys with Big Muscles Have Misplaced Priorities”: Masculinities and Muscularities in Young South Korean Men’s Body Image	2
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	2
Psychological Theory and the Illusion of Scientific Prediction	2
‘White Child Gone Bankrupt’—The Intersection of Race and Poverty in Youth Fathered by UN Peacekeepers	2
The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	1
A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	1
Negotiating SHI-FEI and shifei: Pursuing a Moralist Self in China’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment Programs	1
Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine	1
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	1
Getting On in Gotham: The Midtown Manhattan Study and Putting the “Social” in Psychiatry	1
Thriving Despite the Odds: Digital Capital and Reimagined Life Projects Among Mexican College Students During COVID-19	1
Concluding Remarks	1
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	1
Idea Technology and Ideology	1
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	1
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	1
Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory	1
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine	1
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	1
Organized Care as Antidote to Organized Violence: An Engaged Clinical Ethnography of the Los Angeles County Jail System	1
The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction	1
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Intangible Cultural Heritage: ‘Curating’ the Human	1
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	1
Majnūn or Mental Disorders: Between Cultural Traditions and Western Psychology in Jordan	1
The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire	1
Laboratory Happiness or Human Flourishing: The Empirical Science of Wellbeing in Phenomenological Perspective	1
Intercultural Training in Tense Times: Cultural Identities and Lived Experiences Within a Community of Practice of Youth Mental Health Care in Montréal	1
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1