Recovery stories: An anthropological exploration of moral agency in stories of mental health recovery

NAL Myers - Transcultural psychiatry, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral agency has been loosely defined as the freedom to aspire to a “good life” that makes
possible intimate relationships with others. This article uses ethnographic research to further …

Dissociation and misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in populations experiencing chronic discrimination and social defeat

H Hall - Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As recently as the late 20th century, Schizophrenia, a category of mental illness with widely
varying phenotypic symptoms, was believed by psychobiologists to be a genetically based …

Thriving despite the odds: Digital capital and reimagined life projects among Mexican college students during COVID-19

HM Wurtz, M Hernandez, M Baird - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
During the pandemic, Mexico experienced one of the longest periods of school closures in
Latin America. After the first year of COVID-19, thousands of college students dropped out of …

Exploring the intersections of trauma, structural adversity, and psychosis among a primarily African-American sample: a mixed-methods analysis

C Rosen, N Jones, E Longden, KA Chase… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic life events (TLEs) have been associated with multiple psychiatric diagnoses,
including anxiety disorders, major depression, PTSD, and psychosis. To advance our …

[HTML][HTML] “Life will go on with the beauty of the roses”: The moral dimensions of co** with distress through autobiographical writing during Covid-19

NC Parson, HM Wurtz, M Lowrey - SSM-Mental Health, 2022 - Elsevier
This article is based on our analysis of a subset of data from the Pandemic Journaling
Project-Phase 1 (PJP-1). The PJP, a collective, on-line journaling platform, was co-founded …

Ethnography in the clinic: Reflections on two examples of clinical–ethnographic research.

J Yahalom - Qualitative Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Clinical psychology and ethnographic research are commonly perceived to be distinct and
unrelated. Clinical psychology is a form of intervention on distress that seeks to objectively …

Struggling along in Nigeria: Depression, treatment, and morality

M Otto, E van Roekel - Ethos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we analyze the multiple ways of moral being with depression in urban Nigeria,
including those of the ethnographer. This approach fits recent theorizing in moral …

Making meaning of trauma in psychosis

N van Sambeek, G Franssen, S van Geelen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Finding new meaning and identity in the aftermath of trauma has been
identified as a key process of mental health recovery. However, research indicates that this …

Identity, subjectivity, and disorders of self in psychosis

SG Berkhout, J Zaheer, G Remington - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2019 - Springer
Alterations in self-experience are increasingly attended to as relevant and important aspects
of schizophrenia, and psychosis more broadly, through a burgeoning self-disorders (SD) …

Infertility as trauma: Understanding the lived experience of involuntary childlessness

C Archetti - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Infertility, to those who are affected by it, is much more than whether one manages (or not) to
have a child: it can be a traumatizing experience. Based on a clinical case study that …