Joan D Koss-Chioino
Biographic Data
| ID | 156743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan D Koss-Chioino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Koss-Chioino |
| SIGNATURE | KOSS-CHIOINO J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0437-3416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doctors Who Integrate Spirituality and CAM in the Clinic: The Puerto Rican Case
Introduction to “Do Spirits Exist? Ways to Know”
Given various studies both within and without anthropology that treat spirits and extraordinary beings as products of mind, culture, and physiology, the goal of this special issue is to entertain a different stance and to examine how we might know that spirits exist. This introduction to the special issue focuses on the meaning of encounters with spirits, other extraordinary beings, and hidden views of the world, including the dilemmas these expe…
Spiritual Transformation, Relation and Radical Empathy: Core Components of the Ritual Healing Process
Based on studies of spirit healing, this article proposes a model of the process of ritual healing that is focused on the core components of spiritual transformation, relatedness and empathy. It describes the central role of spiritual transformation in healers from which emerges their capacity for relation and empathy. Many spirit healers, following a spiritual transformation, begin to exercise 'radical empathy,' in which individual differences b…
Medical Pluralism in the Andes
Foreword June Nash List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Andean Medical Studies and the Contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 1. The Andean Context Ann Miles and Tom Leatherman 2. Ethnography and the Person: A Reflection on Libbet Crandon's Andean Fieldwork Joan Koss-Chiono 3. Changing Times, Changing Symptoms: The Effects of Modernization on Mestizo Medicine in Rural Bolivia Libbet Crandon 4. Contributions to a Critical Analysis of Medical…
Jung, Spirits and Madness: Lessons for Cultural Psychiatry
An understanding of the nature and meaning of 'dissociative,' 'altered' or unusual states ultimately turns on the meaning and definition of consciousness. The view of consciousness from the discipline of psychiatry is largely based on a biomedically endorsed, culturally specific perspective of 'normal' consciousness as an integrated pattern of quotidian relationships with the 'observable' physical world. This perspective underlies the nosology fo…
Depression among Puerto Rican Women: Culture, Etiology and Diagnosis
As in most of the societies that have been studied, more than twice the number of Puerto Rican women compared to men suffer from diagnosed depression. The aim of this article is to examine depression in women in Puerto Rico from epidemiological, etiological, and especially, experiential perspectives. This study includes a comparison of women’s complaints around negative mood states in cases within the public mental health system and equivalent ca…
Development of a Culturally Responsive Group Counseling Model for Mexican American Adolescents
This article discusses a group counseling model specifically targeted for Mexican American adolescents with behavior problems including substance abuse. An integrated model is proposed, with the model assumptions clearly articulated and specific therapeutic goals addressed in a culturally responsive manner. Foci of the model are ethnic identity, affective expression, and life choices. Preliminary findings indicate that the youths are retained in …
The interaction of popular and clinical diagnostic labeling: The case of Embrujado
This paper explores the effect of a popular diagnosis of distress, "bewitchment," on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of psychiatric illness in a small group of Hispanic patients in New Mexico. Two major approaches to such "culture-bound" illnesses in clinical settings are critiqued and synthesized in suggesting a practical way to understand how both folk and psychiatric explanations can affect experience with, and of psychiatric patients who pr…
Possession/Trance and Psychopathology: Mismatched Conceptual Constructs
Experience of nervousness and anxiety disorders in Puerto Rican women: Psychiatric and ethnopsychological perspectives
Analyses of case materials describe variations in the experiences of Puerto Rican women diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder, in treatment with mental health clinicians, physicians, or traditional healers. Their common complaints are examined as core symbolic elements in culturally patterned complexes of meanings focused around personal trauma, stressful life events, personal and social reactions, expectations about treatment, and the course o…
Spiritual Transformation, Relation and Radical Empathy: Core Components of the Ritual Healing Process
Based on studies of spirit healing, this article proposes a model of the process of ritual healing that is focused on the core components of spiritual transformation, relatedness and empathy. It describes the central role of spiritual transformation in healers from which emerges their capacity for relation and empathy. Many spirit healers, following a spiritual transformation, begin to exercise 'radical empathy,' in which individual differences b…
The interaction of popular and clinical diagnostic labeling: The case of Embrujado
This paper explores the effect of a popular diagnosis of distress, "bewitchment," on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of psychiatric illness in a small group of Hispanic patients in New Mexico. Two major approaches to such "culture-bound" illnesses in clinical settings are critiqued and synthesized in suggesting a practical way to understand how both folk and psychiatric explanations can affect experience with, and of psychiatric patients who pr…
Depression among Puerto Rican Women: Culture, Etiology and Diagnosis
As in most of the societies that have been studied, more than twice the number of Puerto Rican women compared to men suffer from diagnosed depression. The aim of this article is to examine depression in women in Puerto Rico from epidemiological, etiological, and especially, experiential perspectives. This study includes a comparison of women’s complaints around negative mood states in cases within the public mental health system and equivalent ca…
Development of a Culturally Responsive Group Counseling Model for Mexican American Adolescents
This article discusses a group counseling model specifically targeted for Mexican American adolescents with behavior problems including substance abuse. An integrated model is proposed, with the model assumptions clearly articulated and specific therapeutic goals addressed in a culturally responsive manner. Foci of the model are ethnic identity, affective expression, and life choices. Preliminary findings indicate that the youths are retained in …
Jung, Spirits and Madness: Lessons for Cultural Psychiatry
An understanding of the nature and meaning of 'dissociative,' 'altered' or unusual states ultimately turns on the meaning and definition of consciousness. The view of consciousness from the discipline of psychiatry is largely based on a biomedically endorsed, culturally specific perspective of 'normal' consciousness as an integrated pattern of quotidian relationships with the 'observable' physical world. This perspective underlies the nosology fo…
Possession/Trance and Psychopathology: Mismatched Conceptual Constructs
Experience of nervousness and anxiety disorders in Puerto Rican women: Psychiatric and ethnopsychological perspectives
Analyses of case materials describe variations in the experiences of Puerto Rican women diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder, in treatment with mental health clinicians, physicians, or traditional healers. Their common complaints are examined as core symbolic elements in culturally patterned complexes of meanings focused around personal trauma, stressful life events, personal and social reactions, expectations about treatment, and the course o…
Possession/Trance and Psychopathology: Mismatched Conceptual Constructs
The interaction of popular and clinical diagnostic labeling: The case of Embrujado
This paper explores the effect of a popular diagnosis of distress, "bewitchment," on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of psychiatric illness in a small group of Hispanic patients in New Mexico. Two major approaches to such "culture-bound" illnesses in clinical settings are critiqued and synthesized in suggesting a practical way to understand how both folk and psychiatric explanations can affect experience with, and of psychiatric patients who pr…
Development of a Culturally Responsive Group Counseling Model for Mexican American Adolescents
This article discusses a group counseling model specifically targeted for Mexican American adolescents with behavior problems including substance abuse. An integrated model is proposed, with the model assumptions clearly articulated and specific therapeutic goals addressed in a culturally responsive manner. Foci of the model are ethnic identity, affective expression, and life choices. Preliminary findings indicate that the youths are retained in …
Depression among Puerto Rican Women: Culture, Etiology and Diagnosis
As in most of the societies that have been studied, more than twice the number of Puerto Rican women compared to men suffer from diagnosed depression. The aim of this article is to examine depression in women in Puerto Rico from epidemiological, etiological, and especially, experiential perspectives. This study includes a comparison of women’s complaints around negative mood states in cases within the public mental health system and equivalent ca…
Medical Pluralism in the Andes
Foreword June Nash List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Andean Medical Studies and the Contribution of Libbet Crandon-Malamud 1. The Andean Context Ann Miles and Tom Leatherman 2. Ethnography and the Person: A Reflection on Libbet Crandon's Andean Fieldwork Joan Koss-Chiono 3. Changing Times, Changing Symptoms: The Effects of Modernization on Mestizo Medicine in Rural Bolivia Libbet Crandon 4. Contributions to a Critical Analysis of Medical…
Jung, Spirits and Madness: Lessons for Cultural Psychiatry
An understanding of the nature and meaning of 'dissociative,' 'altered' or unusual states ultimately turns on the meaning and definition of consciousness. The view of consciousness from the discipline of psychiatry is largely based on a biomedically endorsed, culturally specific perspective of 'normal' consciousness as an integrated pattern of quotidian relationships with the 'observable' physical world. This perspective underlies the nosology fo…
Spiritual Transformation, Relation and Radical Empathy: Core Components of the Ritual Healing Process
Based on studies of spirit healing, this article proposes a model of the process of ritual healing that is focused on the core components of spiritual transformation, relatedness and empathy. It describes the central role of spiritual transformation in healers from which emerges their capacity for relation and empathy. Many spirit healers, following a spiritual transformation, begin to exercise 'radical empathy,' in which individual differences b…
Introduction to “Do Spirits Exist? Ways to Know”
Given various studies both within and without anthropology that treat spirits and extraordinary beings as products of mind, culture, and physiology, the goal of this special issue is to entertain a different stance and to examine how we might know that spirits exist. This introduction to the special issue focuses on the meaning of encounters with spirits, other extraordinary beings, and hidden views of the world, including the dilemmas these expe…
Doctors Who Integrate Spirituality and CAM in the Clinic: The Puerto Rican Case
Psychology (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)