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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	31
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	13
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	12
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	12
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	11
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	11
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	10
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	9
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	9
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	9
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	8
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	8
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	7
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	7
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	6
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	6
Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter	6
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	5
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	5
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	5
Cultivating Doctors’ Gut Feeling: Experience, Temporality and Politics of Gut Feelings in Family Medicine	5

Facing and Overcoming Pain Through Scientific Evidence: The Imperative of Exposure as a Psychological Technique for Cognitive Behavioral Treatments in Buenos Aires, Argentina	5
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	5
Psychotheraputic Dimensions of an Islamic-Sufi-Based Rehabilitation Center: A Case Study	5
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	5
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	5
Under Pressure: Living with Diabetes in Cairo	5
“Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	5
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	4
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	4
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	4
SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo	3
Okweraliikirira and Okwenyamira: Idioms of Psychological Distress Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	3
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	3
Navigating the Unknown: Mental Pain, Uncertainty, and Self-Isolation in Bali and Java	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	3
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	3
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India	2
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	2
Introduction to Special Issue: Psychiatry as Social Medicine	2
Correction to: “Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	2
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	2
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	2
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	2
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	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
“Breaking Down”: Afflictions and Treatments During Times of Crisis in Buenos Aires	2
Imitation, Rivalry, and Escalation: Rethinking Adolescent Self-Harm Through Mimetic Theory	1
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	1

Julia E.H. Brown: The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-risk Conditions	1
The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	1
Tukdam, Different Ontological Bodies, and Making Tibetan Deaths Visible	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning	1
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Correction: Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure	1
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	1
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	1
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	1
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	1
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	1
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	1
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	1
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	1
Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations	1
"The University Lives Anxiety and De-pression": Diagnostic Uses and Affective Negotiations in Mental Health Care Services for University Students in Chile	1
Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	1
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	1
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	1
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	1