Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex mood disorder with high heterogeneity and unclear pathophysiology. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been repeatedly observed in BD; however, our understanding of mitochondrial dysfunction remains incomplete due to the lack of patient stratificatio…
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“Respect for life” has always been a core tenet of Taoist faith, and practitioners of Taoism have, therefore, always viewed longevity as a life goal. In the process, they developed a unique school of thought toward personal health. With the rise of healthcare research in recent …
Insomnia is a risk factor for suicidal behavior including attempts and suicide. We investigated whether insomnia symptom severity predicted suicidality and suicide in an at-risk sample. The sample included deceased psychiatric patients seen at Weber Human Services since 2008 (N=…
Psychiatry faces epistemic problems because of its roughly dualist philosophy of mind. Theory and practice that implicitly or explicitly separate mind and body challenge psychiatry’s ability to describe, meet and treat its patients. This is particularly problematic because psych…
Background: Depression and dementia are the most common causes of disability worldwide and are leading causes of global disease burden. Both conditions are associated with poor psychosocial functioning and impaired capacity to manage other illnesses. There is potential to delay …
Lifestyle interventions that target behavior change for weight loss are effective treatments for overweight and obesity. Despite the effectiveness of these interventions, there is variability in weight loss among individuals, with some individuals being more successful with weig…
Background: People who experience physical trauma face a range of psychosocial outcomes. These may be overlooked by busy clinicians. While some risk factors are understood, our understanding of the psychological effects of violent injury remains limited. Furthermore, there has b…
Worldwide there are several million war refugees, many of whom stay in the host countries for years. However, little is known about their long-term mental health. The current thesis examined the prevalence, course, and predictors of mental disorders and subjective quality of lif…
24 million people worldwide are affected by schizophrenia. Its complex psychopathology, including changes in perception, can incur substantial personal distress and economic burden. Finding appropriate treatment that attracts voluntary adherence is an ongoing challenge for clini…
Background: Following post-communist social and economic changes, Romania is currently transitioning from institutionalised mental health services to a recovery-focused approach. Within this context, it is important to understand the perspective of Romanian service users on reco…
Today there are over 70,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, many of whom immigrated in two mass movements in the mid 1980's and early 1990's. Among the many cultural practices they brought with them is a spirit possession complex called zar. Zar centers around a class of invisi…
This study was driven by a curiosity related to the utility of using western texts in teaching in Jordan. In these texts, the value of a practice grounded in the NPR is highlighted. Numerous psychiatric models of NPR have been established to guide nursing practices with patients…
After 1900, French psychiatrists honed their discipline's cutting edge in the Maghreb, not in Paris. When German psychiatric innovations overshadowed French accomplishments, French doctors saw the colonies as an experimental space for rejuvenating their profession. Unlike metrop…
Between 1954 and 1960, Frantz Fanon conducted numerous clinical studies on the social role of psychiatry (in his capacity as director of psychiatric wards in French Algeria and later post-independence Tunisia.) Later published as articles, conference papers and lectures, these s…
The history of twentieth-century immigration by the African and Caribbean Diasporas to Britain is a history of mental distress. This thesis focusses on the social elements—conditioned by racism, gender inequities, and colonialism—that cause mental distress in the protagonists of…
Amaç: Araştırmamızın amacı, obsesif kompulsif bozukluğu olan hastaların yakınlarına verilen psikoeğitimin bakım yüküne olan etkisini değerlendirmektir. Gereç ve yöntem: Çalışmamız, İstanbul ilinde Sağlık Bakanlığı'na bağlı bir Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi psikiyatri polikliniği…
This dissertation ethnographically examines the dynamic relationship between cultural change, psychiatry, and subjective experience among women in Morocco. Over the past fifteen years, unprecedented socio-economic reform in this postcolonial Muslim society has unsettled local ge…