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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	17
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	12
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	12
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	11
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	11
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	10
Revenge Fantasies Expressed Through Drawings and Narratives: Insights from Indian Perspectives Based on Gender and Religion	10
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	10
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	9
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	9
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	8
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	8
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	7
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	6
Experience of Personal Recovery from Mental Disorders Among West African Refugees: A Clinical Case Study	6
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	6
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	6
Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter	5
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	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
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	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
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	4
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
Under Pressure: Living with Diabetes in Cairo	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	4
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	4
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	3
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	3
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	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
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	3
Navigating the Unknown: Mental Pain, Uncertainty, and Self-Isolation in Bali and Java	3
Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	3
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	3