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1. Kleinman, A. (1988). Rethinking Psychiatry. New York: Free Press.
2. Kirmayer, L. J. (1989). Cultural variations in the response to psychiatric disorders and emotional distress. Social Science and Medicine, 29(3), 327-339.
3. Littlewood, R. (1990). From categories to contexts: A decade of the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 308-327.
4. Littlewood, R. (1991). Against pathology: The new psychiatry and its critics. British Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 696-702
5. Canino, G., Lewis-Fernandez, R., & Bravo, M. (1997). Methodological challenges in cross-cultural mental health research. Transcultural Psychiatry, 34(2), 163-184.
6. Flaherty, J. A., Gavira, F. M., Pathak, D., Mitchell, T., Wintrob, R., Richman, J. A., & Birz, S. (1988). Developing instruments for cross-cultural psychiatric research. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 176(5), 257-263.
7. Westermeyer, J., & Janca, A. (1997). Language, culture and psychopathology: Conceptual and methodological issues. Transcultural Psychiatry, 34(3), 291-312.
8. Lock, M. (1993). Cultivating the body: Anthropology and epistemologies of bodily practice and knowledge. Annual Review of Anthropology, 22, 133-135.
9. Kirmayer, L. J. (1992). The body's insistence on meaning: Metaphor as presentation and representation in illness experience. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 6(4), 323-346.
10. Kirmayer, L. J., Young, A., & Robbins, J. M. (1994). Symptom attribution in cultural perspective. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 39(10), 584-595.
11. Kirmayer, L.J., Smith, A. & Dao, T.H.T. (1998) Somatization and psychologization: Understanding cultural idioms of distress. In: S. Okpaku (Ed.) Clinical Methods in Transcultural Psychiatry, Washington: American Psychiatric Press.
12. Corin, E. (1990). Facts and meaning in psychiatry: An anthropological approach to the lifeworld of schizophrenics. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 14, 153-188.
13. Jenkins, J. H., & Karno, M. (1992). The meaning of expressed emotion: Theoretical issues raised by cross-cultural research. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(1), 9-21.
14. Kirmayer, L.J. & Corin, E. (1997) Inside knowledge: Cultural constructions of insight in psychosis. In: X. Amador & A. David (eds.) Insight in Psychosis. (pp. 193-220) New York: Oxford University Press.
15. Kirmayer, L. J. (1994). Pacing the void: Social and cultural dimensions of dissociation. In D. Spiegel (Ed.), Dissociation: Culture, Mind and Body, (pp. 91-122). Washington: American Psychiatric Press.
16. Kirmayer, L. J. (1996). Landscapes of Memory: Trauma, narrative and dissociation. In P. Antze & M. Lambek (Eds.), Tense Past: Cultural Essays on Trauma and Memory. London: Routledge
17. Gaines, A. D. (1992). From DSM-I to III-R: Voices of self, mastery and the other: A cultural constructivist reading of U.S. psychiatric classification. Social Science and Medicine, 35(1), 3-24.
18. Shweder, R., & Bourne, E. J. (1982). Does the concept of the person vary cross-culturally? In A. J. Marsella & G. M. White (Eds.), Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy, (pp. 97-137). Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
19. Wikan, U. (1989). Managing the heart to brighten face and soul: Emotions in Balinese morality and health care. American Ethnologist, 16(2), 294-312.
20. Eisenbruch, M. (1991). From postraumatic stress disorder to cultural bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian refugees. Social Science and Medicine, 33(6), 673-680.
21. Kirmayer, L. J., Young, A., & Hayton, B. C. (1995). The cultural context of anxiety disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18(3), 503-521.
22. Young, A. (1995) Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
23. Gaines, A. D. (1992). Psychiatry in anthropology: From subject to object in medical anthropology. In A. D. Gaines (Ed.), Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries, . Albany: SUNY Press.
24. Kirmayer, L. J. (1991). The place of culture in psychiatric nosology: Taijin kyofusho and DSM-III-R. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 179(1), 19-28.
25. Kirmayer, L. J., Young, A., & Hayton, B. C. (1995). The cultural context of anxiety disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18(3), 503-521.
26. Manson, S. M. (1995). Culture and major depression: Current challenges in the diagnosis of mood disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18(3), 487-501.
27. Obeyesekere, G. (1985). Depression, Buddhism, and the work of culture in Sri Lanka. In A. M. Kleinman & B. Good (Eds.), Culture and Depression, (pp. 134-152). Berkeley: University of California Press.
28. Boehnlein, J.K. & Kinzie, J.D. (1995). Refugee trauma. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 32(3): 223-252.
29. Rousseau, C. (1995). Mental health of refugee children. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 32(3): 299-331.
30. Paris, J. (1997). Social factors in the personality disorders. Transcultural Psychiatry, 34(4), 421-452.
31. Lewis-Fernandez, R., & Kleinman, A. (1994). Culture, personality, and psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103(1), 67-71.
32. Kirmayer, L. J. (1994). Suicide among Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 31(1), 3-58.
33. Manson, S. M., Shore, J. H., & Bloom, J. D. (1985). The depressive experience in American Indian communities: A challenge for psychiatric theory and diagnosis. In A. M. Kleinman & B. Good (Eds.), Culture and Depression, (pp. 331-368). Berkeley: University of California Press.
34. Corin, E. (1979). A possession psychotherapy in an urban setting: Zebola in Kinshasa. Social Science and Medicine, 13B, 327-338.
35. Dow, J. (1986). Universal aspects of symbolic healing: A theoretical synthesis. American Anthropologist, 88, 56-69.
36. Kirmayer, L. J. (1989). Psychotherapy and the cultural concept of the person. Santé, Culture, Health, 6(3), 241-270.
37. Kirmayer, L. J. (1993). Healing and the invention of metaphor: The effectiveness of symbols revisited. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 17(2), 161-195.