OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transcultural 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspective changes through transcultural mediation training: A qualitative study of trainees, instructors, and experts	60
Theories of mind and trauma after war in Uganda	44
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	43
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	28
Pilgrimage for an autism diagnosis: A study of Venezuelan parents’ experiences	27
Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation	26
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective	26
An evaluation of early marriage and the mental state of Roma women: A cross-sectional study	26
Activist burnout in No Borders : The case of a highly diverse movement	23
Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historical trauma	19
The fragility of truth: Social epistemology in a time of polarization and pandemic	19
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	18
Survivors, users, or peers? Translating identities and decolonizing mental health in China	17
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	17
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	16
Maasai women hearing voices: Implications for global mental health	16
The culturally and contextually sensitive assessment of mental health using a structured diagnostic interview (MINI Kid) for Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon: Challenges and solution	15
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals	14
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	14
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health	14
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	14
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	14
Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations	13
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	13
Reviewers List	12

Cross-cultural adaptation of four instruments to measure stigma towards people with mental illness and substance use problems among primary care professionals in Chile	11
The Cultural Formulation Interview—Generating distance or alliance? A qualitative study of practice changes in Danish mental healthcare	11
“Mending fractured personalities”: A photography-based cultural study of recovery from mental distress in Romania	11
Explanatory models of common mental disorders among South Asians in high-income countries: A systematic review	10
Epistemic losses, cultural exclusions, and the risk of biopiracy in the globalization of ayahuasca: A reply to Labate et al.	10
Trust, individualism, and the logics of care in middle America during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Finding agency in limbo: A qualitative investigation into the impact of occupational engagement on the mental health and wellbeing of asylum seekers in the UK	10
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting	10
Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinian Arabs in Israel	10
Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review	10
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students	10
Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	10
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia: A scoping review	9
Lessons learned from the translation of the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale into isiXhosa for use with South African Xhosa people with schizophrenia	9
Health professionals’ experiences of and attitudes towards mental healthcare for migrants and refugees in Europe: A qualitative systematic review	9
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	9
Walking out of the shadows: Exploring the complexities of motherhood and intergenerational realities in the families of three Taiwanese comfort women survivors	9
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women	9
Perceived Discrimination, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health among Hispanic Adults in Primary Care	9
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	9
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A qualitative study of cultural concepts of distress in northern Haiti	9
“They should ask about our feelings”: Mongolian women's experiences of postpartum depression	9
Depression and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in mothers 6 weeks to 12 months post-delivery in a rural setting in Kenya	8
Civilians’ strategies of post-traumatic growth (PTG): The significance of Pashtunwali culture in the Swat conflict in Pakistan	8
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	7
“I didn’t do it!”: Lived experiences of suicide attempts made without perceived intent or volition	7
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	7
Gaps and gains in parents’ mental health literacy: A cross-cultural comparison on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	7
When Cotard's syndrome fits the sociocultural context: The singular case of Per “Dead” Ohlin and the Norwegian black metal music scene	7
Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context	7
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	7
Corrigendum to Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	7
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	7
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy	7
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role?	7
Help-seeking strategies and treatment experiences among individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran: A qualitative study	7
Loneliness in Kenyan adolescents: Socio-cultural factors and network association with depression and anxiety symptoms	6
Perceptions of youth internalizing symptoms: Cross-cultural comparisons between Taiwanese and U.S. mothers	6
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions	6
A comparative study of mental health diagnoses, symptoms, treatment, and medication use among Orthodox Jews	6
Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens: Folk understandings of wisdom and its ontology in the Philippines and Sri Lanka	6
The adaptation of a youth mental health intervention to a peer-delivery model utilizing CBPR methods and the ADAPT-ITT framework in Sierra Leone	6
No time to grieve: Inuit loss experiences and grief practices in Nunavik, Quebec	5
Reflections on the explanations of higher psychosis rates among migrant and ethnic minority populations: A critical discourse analysis	5
“Everything was stuck in my inside and I just wanted to get it out”: Psychological distress, coping, and help-seeking for young adult Australian Hazaras from refugee backgrounds	5
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care: Exploring the attitudes of psychotherapists	5
Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents	5
Lockdown through a Chinese lens: A qualitative study	5
“I thought that I had to be alive to repay my parents”: Filial piety as a risk and protective factor for suicidal behavior in a qualitative study of Chinese women	4
Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening	4

Young adults’ perceptions of their families’ health beliefs and influence on mental health care seeking in rural South Africa	4
High-risk pregnant women's perceptions of their condition: A qualitative study with an emphasis on psychosocial need	4
Access and benefit-sharing legislation: An ethnobiological approach to overcoming epistemic injustices through intercultural dialogue	4
Is personhood lost after mental illness? Exploring the dynamic interface between personhood and mental illness in Ghana	4
Gender-based violence among refugee women referred to a Cultural Consultation Service in Montreal	4
“I had no idea there were psychiatric clinics for children”: A qualitative study of how migrant parents reach Swedish mental health services for their children	4
Investigation of mediumistic letter: A deceased son supposedly writes to his parents	4
A qualitative study exploring the epistemology of suffering within a Malaysian Indigenous tribe	4
Decolonizing psychiatry: An example from Hinduism and psychoanalysis	4
Mental health interventions for African refugees resettled in North America: A systematic review	4
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	4
Communalistic use of psychoactive plants as a bridge between traditional healing practices and Western medicine: A new path for the Global Mental Health movement	4
Evaluation of a culturally adapted reminiscence therapy intervention: Improving mood, family and community connectedness in Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking older adults	4
Intergenerational conflict among resettled South Sudanese in Australia	4
Perceived clinical challenges when treating patients from different cultures: A study among psychiatry trainees in Norway	4
Comparing outcomes of psychiatric rehabilitation between ethnic-religious groups in Israel	3
The resounding influence of benevolent childhood experiences	3
“I wanted to be a bride, not a wife”: Accounts of child marriage in the Bedouin community in Israel	3
Religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry	3
Examining community-level protection from Alaska Native suicide: An Indigenous knowledge-informed extension of the legacy of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	3
The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges	3
Recruitment and retention of American Indian youth and caregivers in a culturally adapted prevention program	3
The role of moral explanations and structural inequalities in experiences of mental illness stigma in Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil	3
Climate change and Indigenous mental health in the Circumpolar North: A systematic review to inform clinical practice	3
Challenges and strategies in the psychiatric care of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population: A thematic analysis of 18 psychiatrist interviews	3
Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depressi	3
The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine	3
Understanding treatment barriers for Major Depressive Disorder in the Latino community: A qualitative study stratified by language preference	3
“I base my life on sadness”: Apparently paradoxical sources of resilience among young Haitians	3
Self-reported problems and functional difficulties in anxious pregnant women in Pakistan: The use of a patient-generated mental health outcome measure	3
Transgenerational trauma in Rwandan genocidal rape survivors and their children: A culturally enhanced bioecological approach	3
Screening depression and anxiety in Indigenous peoples: A global scoping review	3
Deconstructing institutional racism and the social construction of whiteness: A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health	3
Cultural continuity, identity, and resilience among Indigenous youth: Honoring the legacies of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	3
Perspectives of university health care students on mental health stigma in Nigeria: Qualitative analysis	3
Elevated trauma exposure and mental health burden among men who have sex with men in Vietnam	3
Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	3
Trauma, risk, and resilience: A qualitative study of mental health in post-conflict Liberia	2
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	2
Causal beliefs regarding schizophrenia and help-seeking behaviors among patients with schizophrenia and family caregivers attending psychiatric clinics in Cambodia	2
Knowledge of psychology in Cambodia: Exploring the relationships to demographics, psychopathology, and idioms of distress	2
“They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them”: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between mental health workers and healers in I	2
Establishing veritocracy: Society, truth and science	2
Self-compassion and self-coldness and their relationship with psychological distress and subjective well-being among community-based Hazaras in Australia	2
Concurrent and convergent validity of culture-specific psychopathology syndromes among Cambodian adolescents	2
Pasung: A qualitative study of shackling family members with mental illness in Indonesia	2
Coping strategies of unaccompanied refugee minors shortly after arrival in Belgium	2
5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought	2
The impact of cultural identity, parental communication, and peer influence on substance use among Indigenous youth in Canada	2
Cross-culturally adapting the GHQ-12 for use with refugee populations: Opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges	2
Mechanisms underlying the impact of self-stigma on social engagement in Arabic-speaking refugees: A path analysis	2
The distinct internet addiction of otaku with maladaptive cognition and social support	2
Susto as a cultural conceptualization of distress: Existing research and aspects to consider for future investigations	2
A Chinese help-seeking model for psychological distress in primary care: An adaptation of Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use	2
A sociocultural approach to understanding collective trauma in Indigenous communities	2
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children	2
Exploring the relevance of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills for emerging adults in India	2
Disputed expertise and chaotic disinformation: COVID-19 and denialist physicians in Brazil	2
Science and sanity: A social epistemology of misinformation, disinformation, and the limits of knowledge	2
Distort, post, repeat: Laundering antisemitism on “cliquey networks” during COVID-19	2
The association between exposure to hate speech or perceived discrimination and mental health problems among Korean residents in Japan	2
Starving to death and the anorexic frame of mind	2
Help-seeking intentions and depression treatment beliefs amongst Sri Lankan Australians: A survey following a mental health literacy framework	2
People with mental illness stigmatize mental illness less: A comparison study between a hospital-based sample of people with mental illness and a non-clinical general population sample in urban India	2
Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry	2