Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: Understanding symptom experience and expression in context
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Individual distress is often expressed using idioms and metaphors located within the meaningful and local social world and is structured around local cultural affordances that shape individual attention and express existential concerns using meaningful themes.
“This demonstrates how individual distress is often expressed using idioms and metaphors located within the meaningful and local social world (Lewis-Fernández and Kirmayer, 2019) and is structured around local cultural affordances (Ramstead et al., 2016) that shape individual attention and express existential concerns using meaningful themes.”
From “I was trying to save the world”: delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation (2025) · cites this paper as Lewis-Fernández and Kirmayer, 2019
Alignment of the intervention with participants' cultural concepts of distress, perceived barriers to seeking help, and most pressing needs is a critical determinant of intervention uptake and adherence.
“Another critical determinant of intervention uptake and adherence is the alignment of the intervention with participants’ cultural concepts of distress [65], perceived barriers to seeking help and most pressing needs.”
From Effects of a self-guided digital mental health self-help intervention for Syrian refugees in Egypt: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial (2024) · cites this paper as [65]
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 51 · Cited by 166
- Authors
- Lewis-Fernández, R., & Kirmayer, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
- McGill University (CA)
- Venue
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-07-26
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 786-803
- ISSN
- 1363-4615 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7471
- OpenAlex
- W2966689100
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Transcultural Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Keywords
- cultural concepts of distress, mental illness, symptom experience, presenting symptoms, cross-cultural psychiatry, cultural context of mental illness
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Language, Stress, Psychological, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Resilience, Psychological
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
