OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences	26
Beyond Competence: Efficiency in American Biomedicine	19
Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile	16
Commentary: A Few Comments on Thinking Through Tukdam	15
A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod	14
Revenge Fantasies Expressed Through Drawings and Narratives: Insights from Indian Perspectives Based on Gender and Religion	11
Navigating Hope and Despair: The Agonizing Boat Journeys of the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees	10
Connections on the Line: Interactions Between Care, Expertise, and Anonymity in a Suicide Hotline in Hong Kong	9
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy	8
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration	8
Experience of Personal Recovery from Mental Disorders Among West African Refugees: A Clinical Case Study	8
Staying Together No Matter What: Becoming Young Parents on the Streets of Vancouver	8
Collaborative Journaling in the Social Sciences: Guidelines and Applications	8
Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings	8
Migrants’ Access to Mental Health Services in Italy: The Case of the Transcultural Psychiatric Operational Unit of Catania in Eastern Sicily	7
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games	7
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing Group for Young Black South Africans	7
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness by Alex Barnard: Columbia University Press, 2023, 416 pp.	7
Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders	6
Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death	6
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts	6
Exploring Barriers to Recovery Amongst Women with Psychosis: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis	6
Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis	5
Transgressive Care. The Specters of Physicality in Global Mental Health	5
A Time to Die: Mexican Life Debates and the Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care	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
Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa	5
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women	4
Changes to Refugee Mental Health During and After a Cross-Sector PTSD Intervention: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study About the Influence of Social Support, Life Events, and Agency	4
Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment	4
What Crisis? Competing Narratives of Mental Health in US Higher Education	4
The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon	4
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool	4
Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Negative Capability May Solve Psychiatry’s Credibility Crisis	4
Adult ADHD in Cultural Ecosocial Niches: Exploring the Rise of Adult ADHD in Context	3
Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: MIT Press, 2023 192 pp.	3
Correction: Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State	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
Okweraliikirira and Okwenyamira: Idioms of Psychological Distress Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda	3
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in COVID’s Epistemic Instability	3
Seasoned Veterans of the Waiting Room: Stories from Working-Class Neighbourhoods of Delhi, India	3
Navigating the Unknown: Mental Pain, Uncertainty, and Self-Isolation in Bali and Java	3
Discrimination and Social Exclusion of People Experiencing Mental Disorders in Burkina Faso: A Socio-anthropological Study	3
Liberation Medicine: Past, Present, and Future	3
Meaning in Life: Exploring the Potential of Mythological Narratives in Contemporary Life	3
Help-Seeking Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands: Mental Health, Adverse Life Events, and Living Conditions	3
Psychiatric Oppression in Women’s Lives: Creative Resistance and Collective Dissent	3
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry	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
Tukdam, Different Ontological Bodies, and Making Tibetan Deaths Visible	2
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti	2
Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19	2
Harm Reduction Principles in a Street Medicine Program: A Qualitative Study	2
The Way That Leads Among the Lost by Angela Garcia: Picador, 2024, 272 pp.	2
Koro (Genital Retraction): Early Mention in 1849 by Carl Wilhelm Maurus Schmidtmüller and Early Psychiatric Verdict in 1883 by E.A. Aldridge	2
“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19	2
Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD	2
Discourses of Involuntary Care in the South African Psy-Complex	2
Confronting the Illness of Recognition: Pain and Reparation Amongst Citizens Mutilated During Protests in Present-Day France	2
The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals	2
Cultural Countertransference of Young Clinicians Facing a State of Possession: A Cultural Case Study	2
Neuroanthropology and Body Image: The Impact of Technology and Cultural Shifts on Self-Perception	2
Contagious Counter-Worlds: On the Idea of an Alternative in German Primary Healthcare	2
“My Body Will Remember What My Mind Wants to Forget”: Towards a Bio-cultural Vulnerability Model of Veteran Multi-morbidity	2
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”: Rethinking Medical and Cultural Ideals of Midlife ADHD Diagnosis	2
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19	2
Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Utility of the Bereavement and Grief Cultural Formulation Interview for Prolonged Grief Disorder	2
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon: The Intimate Combinations of Dementia Drugs in Brazil	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
Pharmacological Microcontroversies and Civilizational Grammars Around ADHD in Chile	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

Resistance and Reproduction: Mental Illness Stigma Observed in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital	2
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach	2