Transcultural Psychiatry Discussion Group University of Toronto
Topic
Readings
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective. In
Intro to “Transcultural
D. Bhugra & K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry, 3-19.
Psychiatry”
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rothbaum, F., Weisz, J., Pott, M., Miyake, K., & Morelli, G. (2000).
Attachment and culture - Security in the United States and Japan.
Culture and Attachment American Psychologist, 55(10), 1093-1104
Theory
Akiyama, C. (2008). Bridging the Gap between Two Cultures: An
Analysis on Identity Attitudes and Attachment of Asian Americans.
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 8(3), 251-263
Feinstein, A. How psychiatry lost its way. An open letter in reply to Paul
Culture Bound
McHugh. Int. J. Soc. Psychiatry. 46(3), 232-5
Syndrome - Koro
Buckle C, Chuah YM, Fones CS, Wong AH (2007). A conceptual
history of Koro. Transcult Psychiat. 44(1), 27-43.
Freedman, K. (2006). The Epistemological Significance of Psychic
Trauma. Hypatia, 21(2), 104-125
PTSD
Summerfield D. (2000). Childhood, war refugeedom and “trauma”:
three core questions for mental health professionals. Transcultural
psychiatry, 37, 417-433
Collinson, S. R. and T. H. Turner. (2002). Not just salsa and cigars:
mental health care in Cuba. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26, 185-188
Spiegel, J.M., Yassi, A. (2004). Lessons from the margins of
Cuban Mental Health
globalization: Appreciating the Cuban health paradox. Journal of Public
System with filmmakers
Health Policy. 25(1), 96-121
Video – Vidal, Carolina. “Innovative Programs in Psychiatry in Cuba”
Video – Rolando, Gloria. “Nosotros y el Jazz”
The Refugee System
Classic critical
psychiatry articles
Homosexuality and
Psychiatry
Foucault 1
Kirmayer, L.J. (2003). Failures of imagination: The refugee’s narrative
in psychiatry. Anthropology and Medicine 10(2), 167-185
Rousseau, C., Crépeau, F., Foxen, P., Houle, F. (2002).
The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary
Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration
and Refugee Board. Journal of Refugee Studies. 15(1), 43-70
Rosenhan, D. (1973). On Being Sane in Insane Places. Science.
179(4070), 250- 258
Spitzer, R.L. (1976). More on pseudoscience in science and the case for
psychiatric diagnosis. Archives of General Psychiatry. 33, 459- 470
Video – Schmiechen, R. “Changing our minds: the story of Dr Evelyn
Hooker”
Drescher J. (2002). Don’t ask, don’t tell: A gay man’s perspective on
the psychoanalytic training experience between 1973 and 1991. J. Gay
& Lesbian Psychotherapy. 6(1), 45-56
Drescher, J. (2001). Ethical concerns raised when patients seek to
change same- sex attractions. J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. 5(3/4),
181-210
Foucault, M. (1964) “The Great Confinement” and “The Birth of the
Asylum” in Madness and Civilisation.
Foucault 2
Foucault 3
Anthropology of
Psychiatry Residency
Patient Experiences of
the Mental Health
System
Transracial &
International Adoption
The Mind, Brain and
Body in Psychiatry
Foucault, M. “The politics of health in the 18th century.”
Power/Knowledge: selected interviews and other writings 1972-77.
Foucault, M. (1973). Nov 21, 1973. In Psychiatric Power. In Ed
Lagrange, J. Palgrave MacMillan.
Various. (1861-1984). Schizo-culture. On prisons and psychiatry.
Foucault Live. 168-180
Luhrmann, T.M. (2002). “Introduction.” Of Two Minds: An
Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry. (book chapter)
Video – Dean, Hillary. “So You’re Going Crazy ....”
Lee, R. M. (2003). The transracial adoption paradox: History, research,
and counseling implications of cultural socialization. The Counseling
Psychologist. 31(6), 711-744.
Ghaffar, O., Staines, W. R., & Feinstein, A. (2006). Unexplained
neurologic symptoms: An fMRI study of sensory conversion disorder.
Neurology. 67(11), 2036-2038
Katz, A.M., Alegría, M. (2009). The clinical encounter as local moral world:
shifts of assumptions and transformation in relational context. Soc Sci Med.
68(7), 1238-46
Cooper, E and Boyden, Jo. (2007). Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are
Children Up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? Chronic
Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 73.
Mohaupt, S .(2009). Review Article: Resilience and Social Exclusion. Social
Resiliency
Policy and Society. 8 (1), 63-71
Kirmayer, L. J., Kienzler, H., Afana, A. H., & Pedersen, D. (2010). Trauma
and disasters in social and cultural context. In D. Bhugra & C. Morgan (Eds.),
Principles of Social Psychiatry (2 ed., pp. 155-177). New York: WileyBlackwell
Audio - Psychiatrists Protest Pentagon Interrogations
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95068929
The Role of
Psychiatrists and Justo, L. (2006). Doctors, interrogation, and torture. British Medical Journal.
Psychologists in 332(7556), 1462-1463
Torture and
Lifton, J. (2004) Doctors and Torture. N Engl J Med. 351, 415-416
Interrogation
Marks, J.H., Bloche, M.G. (2008). The Ethics of Interrogation -- The US
Military's Ongoing Use of Psychiatrists. N. Engl. J. Med. 359, 1090 - 1092
Stacey, J. and Biblarz, T. (2001). (How) Does The Sexual Orientation Of
Parents Matter? American Sociological Review. 66(2)
LGBT Parenting Clarke, V. (2008) From outsiders to motherhood to reinventing the family:
constructions of lesbians as parents in the psychological literature – 18862006. Women's Studies International Forum. 31(2), 118-128
Sue, D.W., Capodilupo, C.M., Torino, G.C., Bucceri, J.M., Holder, A.M.,
Nadal, K.L., Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life:
Race and
implications for clinical practice. Am Psychol. 62(4), 271-86
Psychosis
Janssen, I., Hanssen, M., Bak, M., Bijl, R., De Graaf, R., Vollebergh, W., et al.
(2003). Discrimination and delusional ideation. Br J Psychiatry, 182(1), 71-76
Traditional
Patel, V., Musara, T., Butau, T., Maramba, P., Fuyane, S., (1995). Concepts of
Assumptions in
Clinical
Encounters
Healers and
Mental Health
Mental Illness in Harare. Psychol Med. 25(3), 485-93
Shankar, B.R., Saravanan, B., Jacob, K.S. (2006) Explanatory models of
common mental disorders among traditional healers and their patients in rural
south India. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 52(3) 221-33
Sorsdahl, K.R., Flisher, A.J., Wilson, Z., Stein, D.J. (2010). Explanatory
models of mental disorders and treatment practices among traditional healers
in Mpumulanga, South Africa. Afr J Psychiatry (Johannesbg). 13(4), 284-90
Video – Farooq, Samir. "I want to grow old in China."
No readings. Viewed art at the group.
Andermann, L. From public to personal: a social and ethnographic view of
Sociocultural
epilsepsy. (2011). In J. Pinikahana and Christine Walker (Eds). Society,
aspects of Epilepsy
Behaviour and Epilsepsy. 28-41. Nova Sciences Publishers.
Global Mental
Collins et al. (2011). Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health. Nature.
Health
475, 27- 30
Aging in China
Art and Trauma