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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	33
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	16
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	12
Revenge Fantasies Expressed Through Drawings and Narratives: Insights from Indian Perspectives Based on Gender and Religion	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
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	10
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	9
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	8
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	8
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	7
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	7
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	6
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	6
Experience of Personal Recovery from Mental Disorders Among West African Refugees: A Clinical Case Study	6
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	6
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	5
Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter	5
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	5
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	5
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	5
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	5

Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	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
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	4
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	4
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	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
Under Pressure: Living with Diabetes in Cairo	4
Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life	3
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	3
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	3
Navigating the Unknown: Mental Pain, Uncertainty, and Self-Isolation in Bali and Java	3
Okweraliikirira and Okwenyamira: Idioms of Psychological Distress Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda	2
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	2
Correction to: “Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	2
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	2
“Breaking Down”: Afflictions and Treatments During Times of Crisis in Buenos Aires	2
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	2
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	2
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
“My Body Will Remember What My Mind Wants to Forget”: Towards a Bio-cultural Vulnerability Model of Veteran Multi-morbidity	2
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	2
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	2
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	2
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	2
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
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
Julia E.H. Brown: The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-risk Conditions	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1

They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	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
Imitation, Rivalry, and Escalation: Rethinking Adolescent Self-Harm Through Mimetic Theory	1
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	1
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	1
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	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
Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations	1
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	1
Correction: Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	1
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	1
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
Ethnography from Medical Elsewheres	1
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	1
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
“I Heard of PrEP—I Didn’t Think I Needed it.” Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs	1
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
“The Territory Has Its Ways of Warning Us”: Cultural Practices and Belief Systems of Two Indigenous Peoples in Colombia and Their Role in Public Mental Health	1
The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience	1
Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care	1