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

Article	Citations
Theories of mind and trauma after war in Uganda	54
Perspective changes through transcultural mediation training: A qualitative study of trainees, instructors, and experts	41
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	40
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	35
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	25
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective	25
An evaluation of early marriage and the mental state of Roma women: A cross-sectional study	24
Activist burnout in No Borders: The case of a highly diverse movement	23
The fragility of truth: Social epistemology in a time of polarization and pandemic	22
Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historical trauma	21
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	19
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	18
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	17
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	17
Maasai women hearing voices: Implications for global mental health	17
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health	15
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
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	15
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals	14
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	13
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	13
“Mending fractured personalities”: A photography-based cultural study of recovery from mental distress in Romania	12
Explanatory models of common mental disorders among South Asians in high-income countries: A systematic review	12
Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review	12

Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations	12
Psychological distress and terrorist engagement: Measuring, correlating, and sequencing its onset with negative life events, social factors, and protective factors	11
Reviewers List	11
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
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students	10
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting	10
Self-identification, mode of diagnosis and treatment, and perceptions of relationships with medical providers of South African Xhosa-speaking traditional healers	10
The Cultural Formulation Interview—Generating distance or alliance? A qualitative study of practice changes in Danish mental healthcare	10
Epistemic losses, cultural exclusions, and the risk of biopiracy in the globalization of ayahuasca: A reply to Labate et al.	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
Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinian Arabs in Israel	10
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A qualitative study of cultural concepts of distress in northern Haiti	9
Health professionals’ experiences of and attitudes towards mental healthcare for migrants and refugees in Europe: A qualitative systematic review	9
Trust, individualism, and the logics of care in middle America during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
“They should ask about our feelings”: Mongolian women's experiences of postpartum depression	9
Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	9
Corrigendum to Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	8
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	8
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	8
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	8
“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
Depression and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in mothers 6 weeks to 12 months post-delivery in a rural setting in Kenya	7
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	7
Help-seeking strategies and treatment experiences among individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran: A qualitative study	7
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	7
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role?	7
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	7
When Cotard's syndrome fits the sociocultural context: The singular case of Per “Dead” Ohlin and the Norwegian black metal music scene	7
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy	6
Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens: Folk understandings of wisdom and its ontology in the Philippines and Sri Lanka	6
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care: Exploring the attitudes of psychotherapists	6
Lockdown through a Chinese lens: A qualitative study	6
Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context	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
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
Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia	6
A comparative study of mental health diagnoses, symptoms, treatment, and medication use among Orthodox Jews	6
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
Decolonizing psychiatry: An example from Hinduism and psychoanalysis	5
No time to grieve: Inuit loss experiences and grief practices in Nunavik, Quebec	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	5
Perceived clinical challenges when treating patients from different cultures: A study among psychiatry trainees in Norway	5
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions	5
Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents	5
Access and benefit-sharing legislation: An ethnobiological approach to overcoming epistemic injustices through intercultural dialogue	5

Evaluation of a culturally adapted reminiscence therapy intervention: Improving mood, family and community connectedness in Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking older adults	5
Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening	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
Cultural continuity, identity, and resilience among Indigenous youth: Honoring the legacies of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	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
Is personhood lost after mental illness? Exploring the dynamic interface between personhood and mental illness in Ghana	4
High-risk pregnant women's perceptions of their condition: A qualitative study with an emphasis on psychosocial need	4
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	4
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	4
Perspectives of university health care students on mental health stigma in Nigeria: Qualitative analysis	4
Intergenerational conflict among resettled South Sudanese in Australia	4
A qualitative study exploring the epistemology of suffering within a Malaysian Indigenous tribe	4
“I base my life on sadness”: Apparently paradoxical sources of resilience among young Haitians	4
Gender-based violence among refugee women referred to a Cultural Consultation Service in Montreal	4
Examining community-level protection from Alaska Native suicide: An Indigenous knowledge-informed extension of the legacy of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	4
The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges	3
Elevated trauma exposure and mental health burden among men who have sex with men in Vietnam	3
Deconstructing institutional racism and the social construction of whiteness: A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health	3
Self-reported problems and functional difficulties in anxious pregnant women in Pakistan: The use of a patient-generated mental health outcome measure	3
Coping strategies of unaccompanied refugee minors shortly after arrival in Belgium	3
The socialization of hallucinations: Cultural priors, social interactions, and contextual factors in the use of psychedelics	3
Pasung: A qualitative study of shackling family members with mental illness in Indonesia	3
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children	3
Screening depression and anxiety in Indigenous peoples: A global scoping review	3
The role of moral explanations and structural inequalities in experiences of mental illness stigma in Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil	3
Challenges and strategies in the psychiatric care of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population: A thematic analysis of 18 psychiatrist interviews	3
“I wanted to be a bride, not a wife”: Accounts of child marriage in the Bedouin community in Israel	3
A Chinese help-seeking model for psychological distress in primary care: An adaptation of Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use	3
Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry	3
Transgenerational trauma in Rwandan genocidal rape survivors and their children: A culturally enhanced bioecological approach	3
Comparing outcomes of psychiatric rehabilitation between ethnic-religious groups in Israel	3
Recruitment and retention of American Indian youth and caregivers in a culturally adapted prevention program	3
Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	3
The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine	3
Climate change and Indigenous mental health in the Circumpolar North: A systematic review to inform clinical practice	3
Concurrent and convergent validity of culture-specific psychopathology syndromes among Cambodian adolescents	3
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	3
The resounding influence of benevolent childhood experiences	3
Science and sanity: A social epistemology of misinformation, disinformation, and the limits of knowledge	2
The impact of cultural identity, parental communication, and peer influence on substance use among Indigenous youth in Canada	2
Trauma, risk, and resilience: A qualitative study of mental health in post-conflict Liberia	2
Help-seeking intentions and depression treatment beliefs amongst Sri Lankan Australians: A survey following a mental health literacy framework	2
The distinct internet addiction of otaku with maladaptive cognition and social support	2
Distort, post, repeat: Laundering antisemitism on “cliquey networks” during COVID-19	2
Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans	2
Contingent universality: The epistemic politics of global mental health	2
Cross-culturally adapting the GHQ-12 for use with refugee populations: Opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges	2
Establishing veritocracy: Society, truth and science	2
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	2
Susto as a cultural conceptualization of distress: Existing research and aspects to consider for future investigations	2
Knowledge of psychology in Cambodia: Exploring the relationships to demographics, psychopathology, and idioms of distress	2
Cultural interplay shaping the well-being of Ghanaian migrants in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Suicide and suicide behavior: A qualitative study in Telangana, India	2
Causal beliefs regarding schizophrenia and help-seeking behaviors among patients with schizophrenia and family caregivers attending psychiatric clinics in Cambodia	2
Starving to death and the anorexic frame of mind	2
Disputed expertise and chaotic disinformation: COVID-19 and denialist physicians in Brazil	2
A sociocultural approach to understanding collective trauma in Indigenous communities	2
Self-compassion and self-coldness and their relationship with psychological distress and subjective well-being among community-based Hazaras in Australia	2
The association between exposure to hate speech or perceived discrimination and mental health problems among Korean residents in Japan	2
“I put a stone on my heart and kept going”: An explanatory model of how distress is generated and regulated among Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence	2
Cultural variations in psychosis: Recent research and clinical implications	2