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Byron Joseph Good (born 1944) is an American medical anthropologist primarily studying mental illness.He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University, where he is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology.
1959 "Observations on the Cultural Context of Japanese Psychiatry," in Culture and Mental Health: Cross-Cultural Studies," Opler, Marvin Kaufmann, ed. New York, 213–242. New York, 213–242. 1961 "Around the Clock Patient Care in Japanese Psychiatric Hospitals: The Role of the Tsukisoi," American Sociological Review, 26:2, 204–214
There are several scientific journals devoted to cross-cultural issues: Transcultural Psychiatry [11] (est. 1956, originally as Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, and now the official journal of the WPA Section on Transcultural Psychiatry), Psychopathologie Africaine (1965), Culture Medicine & Psychiatry (1977), Curare (1978), and World ...
She has been awarded research funding from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health as Principal Investigator for a study on "Sociocultural Factors and Course of Persistent Mental Illness, National Institute of Mental Health” (NIMH Grant MH 47920; 1990–1996) and “Culture, Schizophrenia, and Atypical Antipsychotics” (NIMH Grant R01 ...
The journal nowadays describes itself as an "international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in the fields of medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and associated cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies". [5]
In 2013 Lawson was awarded the American Psychiatric Foundation's award for Advancing Minority Mental Health. [9] In 2014 he was the recipient of the Solomon Carter Fuller Award for African American Pioneers. [10] In 2017 he received the George Winokur Clinical Research Award from the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists. [11]
Chief of Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: John Charles Bucknill: 1817–1897 British mental health reformer Aggrey Burke: 1943– British transcultural psychiatry: Donald Ewen Cameron: 1901–1967 Scottish "Depatterning" and "psychic driving" CIA funded experiments, head of APA and WPA John Cade: 1912–1980 Australian
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health [18] Association for College Psychiatry [19] Association for Contextual Behavioral Science [20] Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness; Association for Psychological Science; Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Association for Transpersonal Psychology