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Book review of Crazy Like Us on STATS.org
STATS is an organization that examines the reliability and validity of quantitative findings in social science and medicine for laypeople, specifically journalists. Today they feature a book review of...
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New York Times portrait of mental health in Haiti
Front page New York Times, March 20: In Haiti, Mental Health System in Collapse. This journalistic portrait of an already destitute psychiatric hospital now in complete collapse also includes a few...
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Brain-mind or heart-mind; TMS or MST; DSM-5 or DSM-V? The American...
This weekend and the first part of this week the American Psychiatric Association held its annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. In addition to staying out of the way of drifting gulf oil and seeing a lot...
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The Catholic bishops’ exorcism workshop: Distinguishing demonic possession...
Next week, Catholic bishops from around the US will meet in Baltimore for their general assembly. As happens before many large conferences, this weekend attendees can take a workshop in order to...
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NIMH, LMICs, & CHIRMH: Funding for global mental health research
Back in March of this year I wrote about Vikram Patel’s call for more international mental health research: As for research, Dr. Patel noted that 90% of mental health research is done in the developed...
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More from McGill’s Summer Program: The Affliction Film Series
McGill University’s Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry is not just about the differences between Swedes and Irish. As part of the summer program’s keynote course, Cultural Psychiatry,...
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Article supplement: Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees
The September 2011 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is out, and it includes an article by myself and some colleagues based on some work we did with Darfur refugees a few years ago. Publication lag...
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Proposed DSM-5 Cultural Formulation guidelines: A report from the SSPC
Last week saw the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) in New York City. SSPC’s mission includes “furthering research, clinical care and education in cultural...
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Looking for graduate school applicants for research in forced migration,...
Fall is graduate school application time, as many programs have application deadlines in October, November and December. I have recently moved to Fordham University’s Department of Psychology, and will...
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Global Mental Health Capacity Building at the 2012 ISTSS Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), this year held in Los Angeles, wrapped up this weekend. This year’s theme, Beyond Boundaries: Innovations to Expand...
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Publication: Review of posttraumatic cultural concepts of distress
Although not every human culture would recognize psychological terms as we use them in North America and Europe, every culture has ways of talking about how individuals feel, and every culture has...
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