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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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	28
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	18
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	16
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	12
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	11
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	11
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	10
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	10
Correction to: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Intrathecal Opioid Therapy Between German and Iranian Patients	10
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
Negotiating SHI-FEI and shifei: Pursuing a Moralist Self in China’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment Programs	9
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	9
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	8
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	8
From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy	8
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	8
Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration	7
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine	7
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	6
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	6
Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter	6
Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study	6
Cultivating Doctors’ Gut Feeling: Experience, Temporality and Politics of Gut Feelings in Family Medicine	6

A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	5
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Under Pressure: Living with Diabetes in Cairo	5
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	5
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	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
The Cultural Hybridization of Mothering in French Prison Nurseries: A Qualitative Study	4
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	4
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	4
Minding our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology	4
Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment	4
“Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	4
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore	4
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
Psychotheraputic Dimensions of an Islamic-Sufi-Based Rehabilitation Center: A Case Study	4
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	3
Life as an Intelligence Test: Intelligence, Education, and Behavioral Genetics	3
Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World	3
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	3
Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India	3
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
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	3
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	3
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	3
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	3
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	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
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize	2
Introduction to Special Issue: Psychiatry as Social Medicine	2
Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt	2
Personhood Disrupted: An Ethnography of Social Practices and the Attribution of Mental Illness in Abeokuta, Nigeria	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
No Ordinary Scribble: The Person Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Paints Their Soul	2
The Cultural Consonance Space: Multiplicities and Enactments of Male Body Ideals in South Korea	2
Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India	2
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	2
Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression	2
The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939	2
What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study	2
Correction to: “Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2

Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care	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
Recalibrating the Scales: Enhancing Ethnographic Uses of Standardized Mental Health Instruments	1
Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes	1
Tension and Other Idioms of Distress Among Slum Dwelling Young Men: A Qualitative Study of Depression in Urban Bangladesh	1
The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning	1
The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword	1
Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery	1
The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict	1
The New ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder Guidelines in Japan: Findings and Implications from Key Informant Interviews	1
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness	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
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review	1
Medicine and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Medical Humanities	1
They Will Surveil You to Death: Gangstalking as a Cultural Concept of Distress	1
Mental Health Collaborative Care in Brazil and the Economy of Attention: Disclosing Barriers and Therapeutic Negotiations	1
Understanding the Sociocultural Dynamics of Loneliness in Southern Spanish Youth	1
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy	1
Correction: Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	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
“I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two”: Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland	1
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	1
‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure	1
Smoked or Bewitched? The Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Mental Illness Among the Shona Persons in Zimbabwe	1
Beauvoir, Ernaux, and Me: On Age, Disability, and Dying Well	1
Temporal Belonging: Loss of Time and Fragile Attempts to Belong with Alzheimer’s Disease	1
The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma	1
Before and After Prozac: Psychiatry as Medicine, and the Historiography of Depression	1
CURED Written and Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer Story Center Films and Singer & Deschamps Productions, 2020 80 Minutes	1
The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire	1
Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology	1
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment	1