OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From Touch to Mental Imagery: The Embodied Aesthetic Experience of Late-Blind People Engaged in the Tactile Exploration of Enrico Castellani’s Pseudo-Braille Surface	25
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	22
Before and After Prozac: Psychiatry as Medicine, and the Historiography of Depression	17
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	15
The Movie Monday Archives: Chronicling Twenty-Six Years of Showing Films in a Psychiatric Hospital Theatre	12
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	11
Getting On in Gotham: The Midtown Manhattan Study and Putting the “Social” in Psychiatry	9
Living the Process: Examining the Continuum of Coercion and Care in Tijuana’s Community-Based Rehabilitation Centers	9
Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study	9
Assembling Adjustment: Parergasia, Paper Technologies, and the Revision of Recovery	9
Visceral Visions: Rethinking Embodiment and Desire in Global Mental Health	9
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	8
Between Solidarity and Conflict: Tactical Biosociality of Turkish Egg Donors	8
Violence at Rikers Island: Does the Doctor Make It Worse? A Clinician Ethnographer’s Work Amidst Carceral Structural Violence	8
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	8
‘He Should Party a Little Less’: Evolving Orthodox Religiosities in Psychotherapeutic Interventions Among Jewish Gay Men	8
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	7
Intimacy, Anonymity, and “Care with Nothing in the Way” on an Abortion Hotline	7
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	6
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	6
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	6
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	6
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	5
Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	5
The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire	5

The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	5
Thanato-technics: Temporal Horizons of Death and Dying	5
The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict	4
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	4
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	4
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	4
“Guys with Big Muscles Have Misplaced Priorities”: Masculinities and Muscularities in Young South Korean Men’s Body Image	4
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
Correction to: The Precarious Space for Mourning: Sick Leave as an Ambiguous Topic in Bereaved Parents’ Accounts of the Return to Everyday Life After Reproductive Loss	4
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	3
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine	3
The Work of Illness in the Aftermath of a ‘Surpassing Disaster’: Medical Humanities in the Middle East and North Africa	3
SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo	3
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	3
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	3
Correction to: “Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	3
Correction to: Cured Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020	3
‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’: Reworking Constructions of Childhood and Trauma Through the Arts in Rwanda	3
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	3
The Suppression of Depression as Multimediation: Psychiatric Diagnoses Under Myanmar's Military Dictatorship	3
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	3
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	3
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	3
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
Majnūn or Mental Disorders: Between Cultural Traditions and Western Psychology in Jordan	2
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	2
Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
“Breaking Down”: Afflictions and Treatments During Times of Crisis in Buenos Aires	2
Amina: Shaking Boundaries of a Woman Inhabited by the Spirits (Senegal)	2
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School	2
Psychosis Without Meaning: Creating Modern Clinical Psychiatry, 1950 to 1980	2
I Didn’t Want the Psychotic Thing to Get Out to Anyone at All: Adolescents with Early Onset Psychosis Managing Stigma	2
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda	2
Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-revolutionary Egypt	2
‘The High Five Club’: Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia	2
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	2
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	2
“I Heard of PrEP—I Didn’t Think I Needed it.” Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs	2
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	1
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	1
Unraveling Reactionary Care: The Experience of Mother-Caregivers of Adults with Severe Mental Disorders in Catalonia	1
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	1
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	1
Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine	1
Material Environments and the Shaping of Anorexic Embodiment: Towards A Materialist Account of Eating Disorders	1
They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1

Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	1
Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration	1
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	1
Explanatory Models of (Mental) Health Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices	1
Sustaining Hope Within Entangled Accompaniments: Toward an Otherwise Clinical Ethnography and Critical Social Medicine	1
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	1
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	1
Hallucinations and Hallucinogens: Psychopathology or Wisdom?	1
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	1
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	1
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	1
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
When Resources Become Stressors: Dynamics of the Stress Process in the Flint Water Crisis	1
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	1
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	1
Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Psychological Suffering of Refugee Patients in Brazil	1
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	1
Therapists’ Experiences of Working with Ethnic Minority Females with Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Study	1
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	1
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
Training in Cultural Competence for Mental Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Students, Faculty, and Practitioners from India and USA	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	1