OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transcultural Psychiatry is 2. 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
Theories of mind and trauma after war in Uganda	43
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	32
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	29
Pilgrimage for an autism diagnosis: A study of Venezuelan parents’ experiences	28
Exploring Diagnostic Classification Prevalence in German and Dutch Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: An International Cross-Sectional Comparative Study	21
Maasai women hearing voices: Implications for global mental health	21
Survivors, users, or peers? Translating identities and decolonizing mental health in China	18
The fragility of truth: Social epistemology in a time of polarization and pandemic	17
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	17
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective	15
Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts	15
Activist burnout in No Borders : The case of a highly diverse movement	14
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	12
An evaluation of early marriage and the mental state of Roma women: A cross-sectional study	12
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	12
The culturally and contextually sensitive assessment of mental health using a structured diagnostic interview (MINI Kid) for Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon: Challenges and solution	11
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	11
Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review	11
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	11
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	11
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	11
Explanatory models of common mental disorders among South Asians in high-income countries: A systematic review	10
“Mending fractured personalities”: A photography-based cultural study of recovery from mental distress in Romania	10
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students	10
Finding agency in limbo: A qualitative investigation into the impact of occupational engagement on the mental health and wellbeing of asylum seekers in the UK	10

Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	10
Cross-cultural adaptation of four instruments to measure stigma towards people with mental illness and substance use problems among primary care professionals in Chile	10
Trust, individualism, and the logics of care in middle America during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting	9
Epistemic losses, cultural exclusions, and the risk of biopiracy in the globalization of ayahuasca: A reply to Labate et al.	9
Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinian Arabs in Israel	9
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women	9
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia: A scoping review	8
Lessons learned from the translation of the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale into isiXhosa for use with South African Xhosa people with schizophrenia	8
Walking out of the shadows: Exploring the complexities of motherhood and intergenerational realities in the families of three Taiwanese comfort women survivors	8
“They should ask about our feelings”: Mongolian women's experiences of postpartum depression	8
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A qualitative study of cultural concepts of distress in northern Haiti	8
Beyond Critique: Reparative Approaches in Brazilian Mental Health	8
Gaps and gains in parents’ mental health literacy: A cross-cultural comparison on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	7
Depression and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in mothers 6 weeks to 12 months post-delivery in a rural setting in Kenya	7
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	7
Civilians’ strategies of post-traumatic growth (PTG): The significance of Pashtunwali culture in the Swat conflict in Pakistan	7
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	7
A quality appraisal of cultural adaptation of caregiver-implemented interventions for young autistic children	7
Help-seeking strategies and treatment experiences among individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran: A qualitative study	7
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	7
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	7
Corrigendum to Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	7
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role?	6
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	6
Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context	6
“I didn’t do it!”: Lived experiences of suicide attempts made without perceived intent or volition	6
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	6
“Get Out of Your Mind, Brother!”: Notes Toward an Anthropology of Anti-“Mind”	5
Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens: Folk understandings of wisdom and its ontology in the Philippines and Sri Lanka	5
The adaptation of a youth mental health intervention to a peer-delivery model utilizing CBPR methods and the ADAPT-ITT framework in Sierra Leone	5
Perceptions of youth internalizing symptoms: Cross-cultural comparisons between Taiwanese and U.S. mothers	5
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care: Exploring the attitudes of psychotherapists	5
Lockdown through a Chinese lens: A qualitative study	5
Reflections on the explanations of higher psychosis rates among migrant and ethnic minority populations: A critical discourse analysis	5
Investigation of mediumistic letter: A deceased son supposedly writes to his parents	4
Loneliness in Kenyan adolescents: Socio-cultural factors and network association with depression and anxiety symptoms	4
Is personhood lost after mental illness? Exploring the dynamic interface between personhood and mental illness in Ghana	4
Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening	4
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	4
Evaluation of a culturally adapted reminiscence therapy intervention: Improving mood, family and community connectedness in Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking older adults	4
The efficacy of parenting interventions for forced migrant families on child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, parental self-efficacy, and parental competence: A systematic review and meta-ana	4
Perceived clinical challenges when treating patients from different cultures: A study among psychiatry trainees in Norway	4
Antiracist mental healthcare training and development of multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills among school mental health providers in Canada	4
Young adults’ perceptions of their families’ health beliefs and influence on mental health care seeking in rural South Africa	4
A qualitative study exploring the epistemology of suffering within a Malaysian Indigenous tribe	4
Access and benefit-sharing legislation: An ethnobiological approach to overcoming epistemic injustices through intercultural dialogue	4
No time to grieve: Inuit loss experiences and grief practices in Nunavik, Quebec	4
Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents	4
Mental health interventions for African refugees resettled in North America: A systematic review	4

Religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry	4
Decolonizing psychiatry: An example from Hinduism and psychoanalysis	4
“I had no idea there were psychiatric clinics for children”: A qualitative study of how migrant parents reach Swedish mental health services for their children	3
“I base my life on sadness”: Apparently paradoxical sources of resilience among young Haitians	3
The significance of lived experience and mental health consumer movements in Indonesia: Experiences and observations from a personal journey	3
Screening depression and anxiety in Indigenous peoples: A global scoping review	3
Exploring the relevance of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills for emerging adults in India	3
Understanding treatment barriers for major depressive disorder in the Latino community: A qualitative study stratified by language preference	3
Intergenerational conflict among resettled South Sudanese in Australia	3
The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges	3
“I wanted to be a bride, not a wife”: Accounts of child marriage in the Bedouin community in Israel	3
Challenges and strategies in the psychiatric care of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population: A thematic analysis of 18 psychiatrist interviews	3
Comparing outcomes of psychiatric rehabilitation between ethnic-religious groups in Israel	3
Self-reported problems and functional difficulties in anxious pregnant women in Pakistan: The use of a patient-generated mental health outcome measure	3
High-risk pregnant women's perceptions of their condition: A qualitative study with an emphasis on psychosocial need	3
Cultural continuity, identity, and resilience among Indigenous youth: Honoring the legacies of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	3
Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depressi	3
Examining community-level protection from Alaska Native suicide: An Indigenous knowledge-informed extension of the legacy of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	3
The Promise of Peace of Mind and “ Convivencia Social” : Psycho-Politics in Times of COVID-19 in Colombia	3
The resounding influence of benevolent childhood experiences	3
Recruitment and retention of American Indian youth and caregivers in a culturally adapted prevention program	3
Causal beliefs regarding schizophrenia and help-seeking behaviors among patients with schizophrenia and family caregivers attending psychiatric clinics in Cambodia	2
Self-compassion and self-coldness and their relationship with psychological distress and subjective well-being among community-based Hazaras in Australia	2
Disputed expertise and chaotic disinformation: COVID-19 and denialist physicians in Brazil	2
A Chinese help-seeking model for psychological distress in primary care: An adaptation of Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use	2
Knowledge of psychology in Cambodia: Exploring the relationships to demographics, psychopathology, and idioms of distress	2
A sociocultural approach to understanding collective trauma in Indigenous communities	2
Pasung: A qualitative study of shackling family members with mental illness in Indonesia	2
The impact of cultural identity, parental communication, and peer influence on substance use among Indigenous youth in Canada	2
Help-seeking intentions and depression treatment beliefs amongst Sri Lankan Australians: A survey following a mental health literacy framework	2
Singapore's Mental Health Peer Movement	2
Science and sanity: A social epistemology of misinformation, disinformation, and the limits of knowledge	2
The association between exposure to hate speech or perceived discrimination and mental health problems among Korean residents in Japan	2
Counselling in zero-COVID China: Affective dissonance and the regime of positivity	2
“They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them”: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between mental health workers and healers in I	2
Trauma, risk, and resilience: A qualitative study of mental health in post-conflict Liberia	2
Coping strategies of unaccompanied refugee minors shortly after arrival in Belgium	2
5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought	2
People with mental illness stigmatize mental illness less: A comparison study between a hospital-based sample of people with mental illness and a non-clinical general population sample in urban India	2
The distinct internet addiction of otaku with maladaptive cognition and social support	2
Suicide and suicide behavior: A qualitative study in Telangana, India	2
Distort, post, repeat: Laundering antisemitism on “cliquey networks” during COVID-19	2
Cross-culturally adapting the GHQ-12 for use with refugee populations: Opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges	2
Establishing veritocracy: Society, truth and science	2
Mechanisms underlying the impact of self-stigma on social engagement in Arabic-speaking refugees: A path analysis	2
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	2
Concurrent and convergent validity of culture-specific psychopathology syndromes among Cambodian adolescents	2
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children	2
Psychometric testing of the Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory among Asian Americans	2
Susto as a cultural conceptualization of distress: Existing research and aspects to consider for future investigations	2
Contingent universality: The epistemic politics of global mental health	2