OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is 3. 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
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	11
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	11
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	11
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
Connections on the Line: Interactions Between Care, Expertise, and Anonymity in a Suicide Hotline in Hong Kong	10
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	9
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	8
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
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	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
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
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
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
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