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Amina: Shaking Boundaries of a Woman Inhabited by the Spirits (Senegal). Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Angelo Miramonti
In this article, I present the individual ethnography of Amina, a Senegalese woman possessed by the spirits of her lineage. Amina's story shows the lacerations of a person who simultaneously inhabits two worlds: the traditional Lebou culture and the Western one. When her spirits manifest themselves, she is forced to choose between two different interpretations of her suffering: the traditional persecutory
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Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
This paper explores the intricate interplay between living with mental illness and the processes of identifying mental illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria. With a particular focus on the contextual understanding of personhood, this study reveals how sociocultural backgrounds modulate the understanding of mental illness and its treatments within the Yoruba context. Through nine months of ethnographic fieldwork
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Entanglements of Technologies, Agency and Selfhood: Exploring the Complexity in Attitudes Toward Mental Health Chatbots Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Robert Meadows, Christine Hine
Whilst chatbots for mental health are becoming increasingly prevalent, research on user experiences and expectations is relatively scarce and also equivocal on their acceptability and utility. This paper asks how people formulate their understandings of what might be appropriate in this space. We draw on data from a group of non-users who have experienced a need for support, and so can imagine self
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Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Diederik F. Janssen
The intriguing story of dhat syndrome is that of medical modernity (psychiatry, clinical sexology) declaring medical premodernity (Ayurvedic concepts of semen loss) as its object. The early history and prehistory of this “culture-bound” diagnosis help understanding it as a dynamic confrontation of local, shifting knowledges. For instance, semen loss anxiety was an established motif both in European
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Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Émilie Pigeon-Gagné, Ghayda Hassan, Maurice Yaogo, Thomas Saïas
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Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Lambros Malafouris, Frank Röhricht
Emerging consensus among enactivist philosophers and embodied mind theorists suggests that seeking to understand mental illness we need to look out of our skulls at the ecology of the brain. Still, the complex links between materiality (in broadest sense of material objects, habits, practices and environments) and mental health remain little understood. This paper discusses the benefits of adopting
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Stubborn Families: Logics of Care of a Family Member with Borderline Personality Disorder Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Maureen O’Dougherty
This study conducted in-depth, largely unstructured interviews with 31 involved family members in a metropolitan area of the United States (US) Midwest on their experiences of BPD in a close relative. Narrative analysis employing concepts from anthropology (the logic of care and family assemblage) was used to examine the nature and quality of care practices and identify human, environmental, and cultural
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“I Heard of PrEP—I Didn’t Think I Needed it.” Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Sarah Mars, Jeff Ondocsin, Kimberly A. Koester, Valerie Mars, Gerald Mars, Daniel Ciccarone
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Infertility as Trauma: Understanding the Lived Experience of Involuntary Childlessness Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Cristina Archetti
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The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Matteo Tonna
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Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Mohamed Ibrahim
The refugee experience has been associated with increased rates of psychosocial challenges. At the same time, evidence suggests that those who resettled in Western countries including Canada underutilize the formal mental health services in these countries. The low uptake has been attributed to barriers such as language, complexity of the health systems, and differing explanatory models of illness
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Training in Cultural Competence for Mental Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Students, Faculty, and Practitioners from India and USA Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Vaishali V. Raval, Baiju Gopal, Pankhuri Aggarwal, Miriam Priti Mohan, P. Padmakumari, Elizabeth Thomas, Aaron M. Luebbe, M. Cameron Hay
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Psych Unit Gangs: An Autoethnography Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Kathryn Burrows
The stigma against people with mental illness is a well-worn subject; however, stigma between groups of people with different mental illnesses is rarely discussed. Within the context of a psychiatric hospital, hierarchies form among patients based on symptomatology and diagnosis. In this perspectives piece, I explore, how, in my experiences with being on the bottom of this hierarchy as a person with
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The Influence of Culture on the Cause, Diagnosis and Treatment of Serious Mental Illness (Ufufunyana): Perspectives of Traditional Health Practitioners in the Harry Gwala District, KwaZulu-Natal Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Ntombifuthi P. Ngubane, Brenda Z. De Gama
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Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Shima Sadaghiyani, Schahryar Kananian, Peter Lam, Gabrielle Messner, Clara Marincowitz, Madhuri Narayan, Alan Campos Luciano, Anton J. L. M. van Balkom, Dianne Hezel, Christine Lochner, Roseli Gedanke Shavitt, Odile A. van den Heuvel, Blair Simpson, Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition with high patient morbidity and mortality. Research shows that eliciting patient explanations about illness causes and treatment preferences promotes cross-cultural work and engagement in health services. These topics are in the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), a semi-structured interview first published in DSM-5 that applies anthropological approaches
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Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Rebecca Seligman
This article explores the experiences of Mexican American mothers who, confronted with the troubled emotions and behaviors of their adolescent children, felt compelled to seek help from mental health clinicians. Their experience is situated in the context of both psychiatrization, or the tendency to treat social problems as mental illness, and the landscape of contemporary mothering in the U.S., where
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I Didn’t Want the Psychotic Thing to Get Out to Anyone at All: Adolescents with Early Onset Psychosis Managing Stigma Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Dea Gowers Klauber, Sofie Heidenheim Christensen, Anders Fink-Jensen, Anne Katrine Pagsberg
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Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Verónica C. Cala, Francisco Ortega
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Unraveling Trust Issues Towards Mental Health Professionals Among Bedouin-Arab Minority in Israel Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Fareeda Abo-Rass, Ora Nakash, Sarah Abu-Kaf, Orna Braun-Lewensohn
Trust in mental health professionals and services profoundly impacts health outcomes. However, understanding trust in mental health professionals, especially in ethnic minority contexts, is lacking. To explore this within the Bedouin-Arab minority, a qualitative study conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 Bedouins in southern Israel. Participants were primarily female (60%) married (60%), averaging
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Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Gabriel Abarca-Brown
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration, multiculturalism, and mental health in health services in Chile since 2010. In this article, I explore how mental health institutions, experts, and practitioners have taken a cultural turn in working with migrant communities in this new multicultural scenario
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“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Caroline Chautems
In neoliberal cultural contexts, where the ideal prevails that female bodies should be unchanged by reproductive processes, women often feel uncomfortable with their postpartum bodies. Cesareaned women suffer from additional discomfort during the postpartum period, and cesarean births are associated with less satisfying childbirth experiences, fostering feelings of failure among women who had planned
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No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Alex Ferentzy
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Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 T. de la Rosa, E. Berrocoso, F. A. Scorza
Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result in higher mortality rates compared with the general population. Research agendas and biomedical technologies are shaped
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Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Manuela Rodrigues Müller, Francisco Ortega
The introduction of mental health collaborative care (MHCC) is one of the strategies to scale up access to mental health care in primary health care in Brazil. This article investigates an experience of mental health collaborative care in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a qualitative study involving interviews with physicians and mental health professionals working in primary health care
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Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Renan Vicente da Silva,Carlos Eduardo Assunção Alves,Mayana Ribeiro Montenario,Laura Rebecca Murray
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The Eschucha (Listen) Podcast Project: Psychosocial Innovation for Marginalized Mexican Youth and Young Adults Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Cristopher Bogart Márquez Rodríguez
The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging period for young people in Mexico, particularly those already contending with social and structural inequality. In March 2021, the Colectivo Frontera, a research collective based in Mexico City, Mexico, which works on advancing equity and psychosocial wellbeing among marginalized communities, carried out an 8-week, online project to provide psychosocial support
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Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Neely Laurenzo Myers
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Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Lorato Trok,Nancy J Jacobs
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Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Lesley Jo Weaver, Shivamma Nanjaiah, Fazila Begum, Nagalambika Ningaiah, Karl Krupp, Purnima Madhivanan
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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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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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Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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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Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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Living the Process: Examining the Continuum of Coercion and Care in Tijuana’s Community-Based Rehabilitation Centers Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) 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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Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Neil Armstrong, Laura Beswick, Marta Ortega Vega
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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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 1.5) 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