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Psychiatric Disorders among African Americans and the Intersection of Personal and Familial Incarceration
Mass imprisonment is a key contributor to U.S. racial health disparities, but less research considers whether intersections of personal and familial...
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The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice
For thirty years, psychiatrists and anthropologists have collaborated to improve the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. This collaboration has...
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The Drama of Expertise About Bipolar Disorder Online
This chapter describes how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed by The National Institute of Mental Health and La Haute Autorité de Santé....
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Primary Health Care Providers Perceived Challenges in Detecting Psychiatric Disorders Among Adolescents in a Primary Health Care Facility in Kenya
PurposeThe objective of the study was to determine perceived health care provider factors that lead to undetected psychiatric diagnosis among...
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Tactical Re-appraisals and Digitally Informed Hypotheses About the Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
This chapter explores the Internet’s democratizing potential by considering how people diagnosed with bipolar disorder re-appropriate medical...
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Modeling college student intimate partner violence perpetration, eating disorder symptomatology, and alcohol salience
Intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration’s relationship with alcohol salience to college experience and eating disorder (ED) symptomatology is...
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Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition with high patient morbidity and mortality. Research shows that eliciting patient explanations...
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Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Despite extensive criticisms of masculinities in Africa, mainly within sociology, critical men’s studies, masculinity studies, feminism and...
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Sex and Sexual Identity Disparities in STDs and Their Mental Health or Substance Use Disorder Risk Factors Among Black/African American Adults
There is a lack of studies examining sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnosis among subgroups of Black/African American population. We examined...
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Mediumship disorder: alternative conceptions of body and disease in Umbanda religion
Western medical science has disseminated conceptions of body and disease that have become hegemonic, covering up other cultural and religious systems...
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The Role of Church Support Networks in the Relationship between Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders among Older African Americans
BackgroundFew studies have examined the effects of discrimination on mental health specifically among older African Americans despite it being a...
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“Women as Troublemakers”: The Hard Sociopolitical Context of Soft Bipolar Disorder in Iran
Gender differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders, with higher prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among women, have been the focus...
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The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals
This research investigates the impact of Coronavirus-2019 on individuals without housing and experiencing psychosis using semi-structured qualitative...
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Rationalization of Space, Rationalization of Madness: Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and the Development of Psychiatric Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century France
The evolution of psychiatric theory and practice in early nineteenth-century France crystallized the need to provide a clear architectural definition...
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Effects of COVID-19 Restrictions on Anxiety, Sleep, and Executive Functions among Arab Israeli Children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Children are vulnerable to the serious effects of COVID-19 due to the restrictions advanced by governments such as lockdowns, home confinement, and...
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Urban Order and Disorder. Genealogy of Urbicide
The aim of this chapter is to broaden the notion of “urbicideUrbicide” by relating it to notions developed within conceptual fields other than those...
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The Shadow that Hovered Over: Gender Salience in Eating Disorder Recovery
Studies examining the social forces behind eating disorders have found that unrealistic conceptions of feminine beauty exert pressure on millions of...
