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Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Yu-Chuan Wu
Morita therapy is known as a psychotherapy grounded in the culture of Japan, particularly its Buddhist culture. Its popularity in Japan and other East Asian countries is cited as an example of the relevance and importance of culture and religion in psychotherapy. To complement such interpretations, this study adopts a socio-historical approach to examine the role and significance of work in Morita’s
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A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-07
Abstract People’s lived experiences of distress are complex, personal, and vary widely across cultures. So, too, do the terms and expressions people use to describe distress. This variation presents an engaging challenge for those doing intercultural work in transcultural psychiatry, global mental health, and psychological anthropology. This article details the findings of a study of common distress
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The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Kelly Ray Knight
In 2020, three crises coalesced to transform the clinical care landscape of addiction medicine in the United States (US). The opioid overdose crisis (crisis #1), which had been contributing to excess US mortality for over two decades, worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic (crisis #2). The racial reckoning (crisis #3) spurred by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police impacted clinical care
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The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Tanya Marie Luhrmann, John Dulin, Vivian Dzokoto
This paper presents evidence that some—but not all—religious experts in a particular faith may have a schizophrenia-like psychotic process which is managed or mitigated by their religious practice, in that they are able to function effectively and are not identified by their community as ill. We conducted careful phenomenological interviews, in conjunction with a novel probe, with okomfo, priests of
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‘He Should Party a Little Less’: Evolving Orthodox Religiosities in Psychotherapeutic Interventions Among Jewish Gay Men Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Einat Bar Dror, Yehuda C. Goodman
Drawing on interviews with Jewish Orthodox psychotherapists in Israel and on sources that represent the social, political, and cultural milieu within which these therapists work, we analyze the practices they use when working with religious gay men. Given debates and prohibitions on homosexuality in Jewish law, the therapists deploy three practices: reproducing religious norms, allowing homosexuality
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Thriving Despite the Odds: Digital Capital and Reimagined Life Projects Among Mexican College Students During COVID-19 Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Heather M. Wurtz, Maria Hernandez, Madeline Baird
During the pandemic, Mexico experienced one of the longest periods of school closures in Latin America. After the first year of COVID-19, thousands of college students dropped out of school, which has been partially attributed to difficulties in adapting to online learning. This study examines how some college students in Mexico coped with and overcame these challenges. Our research draws on journals
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Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Ana Vinea
In 2009, Egypt adopted the “Law for the Care of Mental Patients,” a rights-based legislation intended to bring the country’s mental health system—otherwise defined by resource gaps and chronic underfunding—closer to global standards of care. Yet, the new act stirred dissension among Egyptian psychiatrists. And, in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 uprising, debates about the 2009 law became intertwined
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Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Evelyn Vázquez, Preeti Juturu, Michelle Burroughs, Juliet McMullin, Ann M. Cheney
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‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Scott Stonington, Roi Livne, Zoe Boudart
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“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19 Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Andrea Flores, Katherine A. Mason
The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted the education of first-generation college students (first-gens)—those whose parents did not complete a college degree. With campuses closed, activities canceled, and support services curtailed, many first-gens have increasingly relied on their parents for mental, emotional, and logistical support. At the same time, their parents face compounding stresses
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Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Wren Ariel Gould, Kinnon R. MacKinnon, June Sing Hong Lam, Gabriel Enxuga, Alex Abramovich, Lori E. Ross
Emerging evidence suggests that transgender individuals are more likely than cisgender peers to receive a diagnosis with a primary mental disorder. Attributions of madness, though, may serve the social function of dismissing and discrediting transgender individual’s self-perceptions. The narratives of individuals who stop or reverse an initial gender transition who also identify as living with mental
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Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Sarah S. Willen, Kristina Baines, Michael C. Ennis-McMillan
Ethnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and
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Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Seth M. Holmes
This article considers the ways in which empathy for patients and related solidarity with communities may be trained out of medical students during medical school. The article focuses especially on the pre-clinical years of medical school, those that begin with orientation and initiation events such as the White Coat Ceremony. The ethnographic data for the article come from field notes and recordings
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Managing the Long-Term Effects of Psychological Abuse on (Im)migrant Domestic Workers Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Carol Chan, Christine Trahms
While researchers have highlighted the emotional distress of migrant domestic workers who experience abuse by employers, less is known about long-term effects of the psychological abuse that they experience. Drawing from a broader ethnographic study of Filipino and Indonesian migration to Chile, we analyze three Filipina domestic workers’ migration narratives to examine how they narrate and manage
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Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Claudia Lang, Murphy Halliburton
Medical anthropologists have not paid enough attention to the variation at the level of the individual practitioners of biomedicine, and anthropological critiques of biomedical psychiatry as it is practiced in settings outside the Global North have tended to depict psychiatrists in monolithic terms. In this article, we attempt to demonstrate that, at least in the case of India, some psychiatrists perceive
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Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Galia Plotkin-Amrami, Talia Fried
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a rapidly globalizing medical category, and there is a need to attend to the on the-ground processes through which laypeople deploy the ADHD label in different local contexts. Based on in-depth interviews with Israeli mothers of children with ADHD, this article explores how mothers, as lay actors in the social field of diagnosis, interpreted the origins
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Facing and Overcoming Pain Through Scientific Evidence: The Imperative of Exposure as a Psychological Technique for Cognitive Behavioral Treatments in Buenos Aires, Argentina Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Romina Del Monaco
On the basis of a research study on cognitive behavioral psychotherapies conducted between 2016 and 2020, this article analyzes exposure as a psychological technique focused on facing and overcoming distressing situations that interfere with everyday life and cause pain. Said psychotherapies have gained more relevance in Argentina in recent years. Their development and institutionalization continued
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Organized Care as Antidote to Organized Violence: An Engaged Clinical Ethnography of the Los Angeles County Jail System Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Jeremy Levenson, Shamsher Samra
The field of medical action extends beyond the clinical encounter. Rather, clinical encounters are organized by wider regimes of governance and expertise, and broader geographies of care, abandonment and violence. Clinical encounters in penal institutions condense and render visible the fundamental situatedness of all clinical care. This article considers the complexity of clinical action in carceral
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The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Julia G. Lebovitz, Tanya M. Luhrmann, Christopher G. AhnAllen
This research investigates the impact of Coronavirus-2019 on individuals without housing and experiencing psychosis using semi-structured qualitative interviews and a case study format. We found that for our participants, life in the pandemic was generally more difficult and filled with violence. Further, the pandemic seemed to impact the content of psychosis directly, such that in some cases voices
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“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Lior Tal, Yehuda C. Goodman
According to psychiatry, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic condition beginning in early life. Psychiatry advocates for early diagnosis to prevent comorbidities that may emerge in untreated cases. “Late”-diagnosis is associated with various hazards that might harm patients’ lives and society. Drawing on fieldwork in Israel, we found that ‘midlife-ADHDers,’ as our informants
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Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Ippolytos Kalofonos
This clinical case study presents the case of a Latina Veteran experiencing psychosis and draws on eclectic theoretical sources, including user/survivor scholarship, phenomenology, meaning-oriented cultural psychiatry & critical medical anthropology, and Frantz Fanon’s insight on ‘sociogeny,’ to emphasize the importance of attending to the meaning within psychosis and to ground that meaning in a person’s
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Time in the State of Dementia Caregiving in South Korea: When Care Becomes (Non-)Waiting Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jieun Lee
Exploring how time emerges as a central problem for lone family caregivers of people with dementia, this article draws attention to care as a way of being in time with others. In addition to active doings that are oriented toward achieving goods that have drawn much attention in recent anthropological discussion on care, care of an intimate other often entails the state of being for the caregiver on
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The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Jesse Proudfoot
A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how oppressive social forces give rise to individual symptoms, however, remains challenging to theorize. This article contributes to debates over the interpretation of symptoms through a close reading of the case of
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Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Sheyda M. Aboii
Articulations of the chasm between ideal and attainable forms of care surfacing throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have highlighted the proliferation of unceremonious deaths associated with inequitable conditions. This paper reconsiders the preposterous temporality of pandemic care by following corpses in and out of clinical space. Written from the perspective of a MD/PhD student’s encounter
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Living the Process: Examining the Continuum of Coercion and Care in Tijuana’s Community-Based Rehabilitation Centers Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Ellen E. Kozelka
In Mexico, community-based, non-biomedical treatment models for substance use are legally recognized in national drug policy, monitored by state-level Departments of Health, and in some cases publicly funded. Academic research on centers that utilize these forms of treatment have focused primarily on documenting their rapid spread and describing their institutional practices, particularly human rights
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Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Neil Armstrong, Laura Beswick, Marta Ortega Vega
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The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Neil Krishan Aggarwal
For thirty years, psychiatrists and anthropologists have collaborated to improve the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. This collaboration has produced the DSM-IV Outline for Cultural Formulation (OCF) and the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI). Nonetheless, some anthropologists have critiqued the concept of culture in DSM-5 as too focused on patient meanings and not on clinician practices
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Explanatory Models of (Mental) Health Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Hanne Apers, Christiana Nöstlinger, Lore Van Praag
Culturally differing approaches to the distinction between physical and mental health contribute to cultural differences in explanatory models of what we call “mental” health in a Western context. For this reason, we use “(mental) health” in this study when referring to these models or differences in understanding. This interpretative, interview-based qualitative study focuses on Belgian mental health
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The Work of Illness in the Aftermath of a 'Surpassing Disaster': Medical Humanities in the Middle East and North Africa. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Omnia El Shakry
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Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Edna Bonhomme,Lamia Moghnieh
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Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Danya Fast, Reith Charlesworth, Madison Thulien, Andrea Krüsi, Jane Buxton, Sarah West, Corrina Chase, Daniel Manson
Among young people who use drugs in the context of entrenched poverty and homelessness, pregnancy is often viewed as an event that can meaningfully change the trajectory of their lives. However, youth’s desires and decision-making do not always align with the perspectives of various professionals and systems regarding how best to intervene during pregnancies and early parenting. Drawing on longitudinal
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Hallucinations and Hallucinogens: Psychopathology or Wisdom? Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 José Carlos Bouso, Genís Ona, Maja Kohek, Rafael G. dos Santos, Jaime E. C. Hallak, Miguel Ángel Alcázar-Córcoles, Joan Obiols-Llandrich
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Intimacy, Anonymity, and “Care with Nothing in the Way” on an Abortion Hotline Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Jennifer Karlin, Caroline C. Hodge
This essay is an ethnographic account of a volunteer, anonymous hotline of physicians and advanced practice providers who offer medical advice and guidance to those who are taking medications on their own to end their pregnancies. Attending to the phenomenology of caring on the Hotline reveals a new form of medical expertise at play, which we call “care with nothing in the way.” By operating outside
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Violence at Rikers Island: Does the Doctor Make It Worse? A Clinician Ethnographer’s Work Amidst Carceral Structural Violence Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Kimberly L. Sue
In this article, I describe the dilemmas of working as a physician-ethnographer within the Rikers Island jail healthcare system before and at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in April 2020. The Rikers Island jail system in New York City has been in the national spotlight as a space of violence, trauma, and death amidst calls to decarcerate by community members and abolition advocates. This article
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Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Carina Heckert, Nia Parson
This article reflects on the narrative data that can emerge through the use of standardized mental health scales, drawing from two studies related to emotional distress among immigrant populations in Texas. In both studies, standardized scales complemented in-depth interviews. The initial goal in using scales was to collect quantifiable data, yet through the research process, the scales also served
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Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Alex Freeman, Tanya Graham
In 2014, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabilities adopted recommendations advising the replacement of involuntary care with supported care. This has polarised many about how best to provide for People living with Mental Conditions (PLPCs). Notwithstanding the contentions of this debate, we find on a personal discursive level that involuntary care is concealed as a self-evident and
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Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Carolyn Sufrin
Anthropologist-clinicians who engage in both ethnographic inquiry and clinical practice confront methodological, ethical, and epistemological predicaments that can challenge and enhance the moral practice and ethics of care inherent both to healing and to ethnography. Clinician-ethnographers often find themselves practicing within harmful systems that they also critique, such as hospitals or carceral
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Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Jessica Frankeberger, Kelly Gagnon, Jim Withers, Mary Hawk
There is ample evidence that homelessness is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Street Medicine seeks to eliminate these disparities by providing healthcare on the streets to people who are unsheltered. While extant research describes health disparities for the unsheltered and programmatic approaches to addressing housing instability, there are few published studies describing how
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Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Julia Knopes, Ariel Cascio
“Competence” is a longstanding value of American biomedicine. One underidentified corollary of competence is efficiency: at once a manifestation of competence, a challenge to competence, and a virtue in its own right. We will explore the social construction of efficiency in US undergraduate medical education through an analysis of its sociocultural and technological landscapes. We present qualitative
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Vulnerabilities Prompting Use of Technology and Screen by Mothers of Autistic Children in India: Lived Experiences and Comparison to Scientific Literature Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Seema Girija Lal, Elena Syurina, Laura Pilz González, Esmée L. S. Bally, Vandana Gopikumar, J. G. F. Bunders-Aelen
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Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Ana Antic
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The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Derek Summerfield
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Majnūn or Mental Disorders: Between Cultural Traditions and Western Psychology in Jordan Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Dovilė Valaitė, Renatas Berniūnas
Mental disorders or altered psychological states are prevalent in all populations, regardless of race or ethnic origin, while at the same time, culture also shapes the conceptions of mental disorders. Religion is deeply rooted in the daily life of the Muslim-majority countries, while Arab countries are affected by an ongoing modernization. Thus, how does the traditional religious conception of mental
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Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-revolutionary Egypt Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Soha Bayoumi, Sherine Hamdy
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Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Christopher Dole
This article traces the development of a transnational psychiatric collaboration between psychiatrists and psychologists in Turkey and Israel in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999. Based on extended ethnographic fieldwork in sites across the earthquake region, the project on which this article is based is concerned with how the Turkish mental health professionals who responded
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Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Sandrine J. C. Vollebregt, Willem F. Scholte, Annette Hoogerbrugge, Koen Bolhuis, Jentien M. Vermeulen
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Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Ida Marie Lind Glavind
Building on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork among people with Alzheimer’s disease living in Denmark, I argue that the loss of a sense of time caused by Alzheimer’s is not a subjective loss, but rather an intersubjective one. Alzheimer’s disease entails living with desynchronized rhythms, time that can be made painfully explicit, and numbers becoming increasingly tricky to manage. Drawing on Thomas
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Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Cíntia Engel
It is commonplace to state that dementia is a complex condition. Such complexity involves the limits between pathological and normal aging, diagnosis with no simple organic causation, and the use of psychiatric medication that does not cure but generates hope to alleviate symptoms such as forgetfulness and delirium. Based on an ethnography of one year and a half (2017–2018) in a Brazilian metropolis
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Unraveling Reactionary Care: The Experience of Mother-Caregivers of Adults with Severe Mental Disorders in Catalonia Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Elisa Alegre-Agís, Andrea García-Santesmases, Asun Pié-Balaguer, Àngel Martínez-Hernáez, Deborah Bekele, Nicolás Morales-Sáez, Mercedes Serrano-Miguel
In most Mediterranean countries, people diagnosed with severe mental disorders (SMDs) are typically cared for by the mother, causing a significant burden on people in this family role. Based on a broader mental health participatory action and qualitative research carried out in Catalonia (Spain) of 12 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups, this article analyses the mother-caregivers’ experience in
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Intangible Cultural Heritage: ‘Curating’ the Human Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Iben M. Gjødsbøl
‘Nostalgic environments’ are increasingly being created in museums and institutional care settings for people with dementia, to support residents’ capacities for memory and recognition. Drawing upon ethnography carried out in a public nursing home specialized in dementia care in Copenhagen, Denmark, this paper engages conceptually the employment of material heritage within dementia care environments
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Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Raghu Raghavan, Brian Brown, Francesca Horne, Sreedevi Ram Kamal, Uma Parameswaran, Ardra Raghu, Amanda Wilson, Chitra Venkateswaran, Nadia Svirydzenka, Monica Lakhanpaul, Chandra Dasan
The notion of ‘mental health literacy’ has been proposed as a way of improving mental health problem recognition, service utilisation and reducing stigma. Yet, the idea embodies a number of medical-model assumptions which are often at odds with diverse communities’ spiritual traditions and local belief systems. Twenty participants were recruited to this study consisting of mental health service users
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Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Elsa Forner-Ordioni
The latest form of cognitive behavioral therapy, virtual reality therapy has been developing in France since 2012, in both university hospitals and private practices. Patients receiving this therapy are immersed in a digitally created environment, using a virtual reality headset, in order to be exposed to their phobias. How does the introduction of technical objects such as the virtual reality headset
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Between Solidarity and Conflict: Tactical Biosociality of Turkish Egg Donors Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Burcu Mutlu
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Turkish egg donors at a Northern Cypriot clinic, this article investigates tactical biosociality of cross-border egg donors that allows them to manage social relations and orient themselves in transnational egg donation (including the processes from recruitment to self-management in and beyond the clinic) under legally restrictive and socially
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Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Giulio Ongaro, Sarah Ballou, Tobias Kube, Julia Haas, Ted J. Kaptchuk
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are frequently prescribed for chronic functional pain disorders. Although the mechanism of action targets pain perception, treating patients with TCAs for disorders conceptualized as “functional” can promote stigmatization in these patients because it hints at psychological dimensions of the disorder. The goal of this study was to understand how physicians prescribe
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Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Natashe Lemos Dekker
In this article, I address the experiences of family members of people with dementia, as they expressed the sensation of gradually losing the person with dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes in the Netherlands, and contributing to the anthropology of grief, I explore the co-existence of experiences of anticipatory grief and manifestations of care to maintain meaningful relations
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‘A Smaller Mask’: Freedom and Authenticity in Autistic Space Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Ben Belek
Autscape is an autistic-led conference, organised annually in varying locations around England. Governed by a strict set of rules and regulations, Autscape is a social and spatial setup explicitly devised to accommodate the tendencies, sensitivities, and preferences of people on the autism spectrum. It is a design, in other words—as organisers and participants alike often profess—for an altogether
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Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Michael Galvin, Guesly Michel, Eurine Manguira, Edny Pierre, Carolyn Lesorogol, Jean-François Trani, Rebecca Lester, Lora Iannotti
This study assesses the perspectives and experiences of Vodou priests (ougan) in the treatment of mental illness in northern Haiti. Our goal is to explore the etiology and popular nosologies of mental illness in the context of Haitian Vodou, through understandings of illness and misfortune which are often viewed as a result of sent spirits—or spirits sent supernaturally by others with the intent to
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“We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes:” Representations of Insanity in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Katarzyna Szmigiero
Themes connected with mental illness and psychiatry frequently feature in the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Some critics believe it is a reflection of the director’s own mental health issues. Yet, it is more likely that Hitchcock was inspired by the Gothic tradition and the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe as well as the popularity of psychoanalysis in post war U.S. culture. This article looks at Hitchcock’s
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The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Lamia Moghnieh
This article traces the case of Hala, a woman chronic patient of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (LHMND) in late 1950s Lebanon. Her story reveals a conglomeration of actors, expertise and technologies that regulated both her sexuality and mental illness, as she was moved, returned, then moved again, from the care of the family to the care of the psychiatric institution. By reconstructing
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The New ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder Guidelines in Japan: Findings and Implications from Key Informant Interviews Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 2.333) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Clare Killikelly, Anna Hasenöhrl, Eva-Maria Stelzer, Andreas Maercker
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a new mental health disorder, recently introduced in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), World Health Organization Classification of Diseases (WHO). The new ICD-11 guidelines reflect an emerging wave of interest in the global applicability of mental disorders. However, the selection of diagnostic core features in different cultural contexts has yet