To date global research on depression has used assessment tools based on research and
clinical experience drawn from Western populations (ie, in North American, European and …

Idioms of distress communicate suffering via reference to shared ethnopsychologies, and
better understanding of idioms of distress can contribute to effective clinical and public …

Background Lack of access to clean water has well known implications for communicable
disease risks, but the broader construct of water insecurity is little studied, and its mental …

Early cross-cultural psychiatry was concerned with the study of cultural difference to make
possible the application of biomedical psychiatric categories in non-Western settings. In the …

Debate about the cross-cultural relevance of depression has been central to cross-cultural
psychiatry and global mental health. Although there is now a wealth of evidence pertaining …

Within the proliferation of studies identified with global mental health, anthropologists rarely
take global mental health itself as their object of inquiry. The papers in this special issue …

The existing literature on Indian ethnopsychology has long asserted that somatization is a
key aspect of experiences of distress. The study of idioms of distress arose out of work done …

Idioms of distress have been employed in psychological anthropology and global mental
health to solicit localized understandings of suffering. The idiom “thinking too much” is …

“Thinking a lot”(TAL)—also referred to as “thinking too much”—is a key complaint in many
cultural contexts, and the current article profiles this idiom of distress among Cambodian …

Across the globe there is a critical need for culturally informed and locally valid approaches
to mental health assessment and intervention, particularly among disadvantaged and …