Dr. Myers is the Editor-in-Chief of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. The journal maintains a separate website here. The official Springer journal page is here.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is an international, interdisciplinary forum publishing work at the intersections of medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities with a specific focus on human experiences of mind, mental distress, and mental health. Founded in 1977, the journal promotes more inclusive understandings of mental distress and illness, particularly by focusing on the role of culture and social context while also illuminating the lived experiences of clinicians, as well as users of mental health care and their families. For this journal, mental health “care” includes biomedical as well as alternative approaches, including (but not limited to): traditional healing, alternative medicine, mutual support, psychedelic treatment, and more.
The journal publishes original research that includes social science methodologies such as ethnographic and qualitative research, as well as historical methods such as archival research. Articles should inform clinically-relevant interdisciplinary conversations and include citations from fields like anthropology, medicine/public health, and the medical humanities. We also seek provocative pieces that challenge current trends in the social sciences, humanities and medicine, which can be published as peer-reviewed “perspectives” pieces. In addition, the journal intends to publish more book reviews and opinion pieces and these are welcome.
With the increasing emphasis on the cultural diversity of society, which finds its reflection in many facets of our day to day life, including health care, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is required reading in anthropology, psychiatry and general health care libraries.
Interview With Domonkos Sik
My research deals with various topics in critical theory including political culture and mental disorders in late modernity. My work has appeared in such venues as The Sociological Review, Theory, Culture & Society, European Journal of Social Theory, Thesis Eleven, Journal of Mental Health. Most...
Interview With Gitte Vandborg Rasmussen
The next few months we’ll be highlighting authors who have published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Gitte holds a PhD in medical anthropology and is a former psychiatric nurse. Her research concerns mental health and family life and explores connections between time and ADHD from...
Interview With Ángela Cifuentes Astete
The next few months we’ll be highlighting authors who have published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Ángela Cifuentes is a transdisciplinary researcher, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, holding PhDs in Social Sciences and in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. In recent years, she has focused on...
Interview With Christopher Chapman
The next few months we’ll be highlighting authors who have published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. I am a medical anthropologist and sociologist. My work explores the intricacies of health and medicine in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on how people care for each other and how...
Interview With Henry J. Whittle
The next few months we’ll be highlighting authors who have published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Doctoral researcher, Department of Anthropology and Sociology & Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA), SOAS University of London Dr Henry Whittle is a psychiatrist and...
Interview With Tawni L. Tidwell
The next few months we’ll be highlighting authors who have published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Tawni Tidwell is a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medical doctor. She has served as Project Lead for the Tukdam Study since 2020. Her research explores cultural practices for differential...