Devon Hinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3985817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devon Hinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinton |
| SIGNATURE | HINTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Phenomenological Analysis of ‘Thinking a Lot’ Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vietnam
This qualitative study explored Thinking a Lot (TAL), a culturally patterned idiom of distress through which individuals describe and make sense of psychological and somatic suffering, among Vietnamese men who have sex with men (MSM). Between June and October 2018, 197 participants completed a verbally administered standardized questionnaire containing quantitative and qualitative questions about TAL. Qualitative responses were analyzed thematica…
I put a stone on my heart and kept going
Clinical variation in the expression of panic disorder, depression and anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has have been documented across cultures. However, local (emic) cultural models that explain how people make sense of their illness experiences remain relatively understudied in India among trauma-exposed populations. Further, the integration of emic findings into clinical care is limited, underscoring the need for emic perspec…
Walking Corpse Syndrome
This article introduces Walking Corpse Syndrome, a common idiom of distress in Tamil Sri Lanka that is characterized by a variety of cognitive difficulties, feelings that an individual is functioning reflexively or impulsively, and acute attacks of dissociation that are accompanied with the sensation of empty-headedness. Walking Corpse Syndrome demonstrates some overlap with Western nosology, although it appears to be its own unique illness categ…
Culturally adapted transdiagnostic CBT for SSRI resistant Turkish adolescents
The most common mental health problems among adolescents are anxiety and mood disorders. While disorder-specific cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is effective for each of these conditions, the comorbidity between anxiety and mood disorders indicates a need for the development of evidence-based transdiagnostic treatments. To examine the efficacy of culturally adapted transdiagnostic CBT (CA-CBT) in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression in tr…
Prevalence and Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress and Depression Symptoms Among Syrian Refugees in a Refugee Camp
Turkey is hosting the majority of Syrian refugees. The current study investigates the prevalence of probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among adult Syrians residing in a camp ( N = 781) and potential predictors. The Impact of Event Scale–Revised was used to measure PTSD and the Beck Depression Inventory depression. Probable PTSD prevalence was 83.4%, with predictors being female sex (odds ratio [OR], 4.1), previous mental…
A cultural examination of the DSM-5
Agoraphobia, infinite space, and epistemic rupture
Reexamining the Relationships Among Dementia, Stigma, and Aging in Immigrant Chinese and Vietnamese Family Caregivers
Olfactory-Triggered Panic Attacks among Khmer Refugees
One hundred Khmer refugees attending a psychiatric clinic were surveyed to determine the prevalence of olfactory-triggered panic attacks as well as certain characteristics of the episodes, including trigger (i.e. type of odor), frequency, length, somatic symptoms, and the rate of associated flashbacks and catastrophic cognitions. Forty-five of the 100 patients had experienced an olfactory-triggered panic attack in the last month. Trauma associati…
Hit by the Wind' and Temperature-Shift Panic among Vietnamese Refugees
Surveying 60 Vietnamese patients with either current or past post-traumatic stress disorder, this article aims to phenomenologically characterize the syndrome of `hit by the wind' in a multidimensional manner. This includes determining the patient conceptualization of the disorder, profiling `hit by the wind' episodes suffered by patients in the previous month, and presenting case vignettes. Eighteen of the 60 patients (30%) suffered at least one…
Panic Disorder, Somatization, and the New Cross-cultural Psychiatry
Dizziness and Panic in China
Panic Probes and the Identification of Panic
The Khmer 'Weak Heart' Syndrome
According to the Khmer conception, a person suffering 'weak heart' ( khsaoy beh daung) has episodes of palpitations on slight provocation (e.g. triggered by orthostasis, anger, a noise, worry, an odor or exercise) and runs the risk of dying of heart arrest during these periods of palpitations; too, the sufferer typically has other symptoms attributed to the purported cardiac dysfunction: fatigue, shortness of breath, and orthostatic dizziness. Ma…
Wind Overload' and Orthostatic Panic among Khmer Refugees
A Unique Panic-Disorder Presentation Among Khmer Refugees
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part II
Kyol goeu(literally, 'wind overload') is an orthostatically triggered syncopal syndrome often found among Khmer refugees in the US. In the present study, 36 of 100 (36%) Khmer patients attending a psychiatric clinic were found to have suffered a kyol goeu episode in the past, whereas 60 of 100 (60%) patients had experienced a near- kyol goeu event in the last six months. Following a survey-based characterization of kyol goeu, as well as the prese…
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part I
Certain cultural syndromes seem to increase the risk of panic attacks by generating catastrophic cognitions about symptoms of autonomic arousal. These schemas create a constant anxious scanning of the body, hence facilitating, maintaining, and producing panic. As a case in point, a Khmer fainting syndrome,'wind overload' ( kyol goeu), results in dire expectations concerning the autonomic symptoms experienced upon standing, thus contributing to th…
Reexamining the Relationships Among Dementia, Stigma, and Aging in Immigrant Chinese and Vietnamese Family Caregivers
The Khmer 'Weak Heart' Syndrome
According to the Khmer conception, a person suffering 'weak heart' ( khsaoy beh daung) has episodes of palpitations on slight provocation (e.g. triggered by orthostasis, anger, a noise, worry, an odor or exercise) and runs the risk of dying of heart arrest during these periods of palpitations; too, the sufferer typically has other symptoms attributed to the purported cardiac dysfunction: fatigue, shortness of breath, and orthostatic dizziness. Ma…
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part I
Certain cultural syndromes seem to increase the risk of panic attacks by generating catastrophic cognitions about symptoms of autonomic arousal. These schemas create a constant anxious scanning of the body, hence facilitating, maintaining, and producing panic. As a case in point, a Khmer fainting syndrome,'wind overload' ( kyol goeu), results in dire expectations concerning the autonomic symptoms experienced upon standing, thus contributing to th…
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part II
Kyol goeu(literally, 'wind overload') is an orthostatically triggered syncopal syndrome often found among Khmer refugees in the US. In the present study, 36 of 100 (36%) Khmer patients attending a psychiatric clinic were found to have suffered a kyol goeu episode in the past, whereas 60 of 100 (60%) patients had experienced a near- kyol goeu event in the last six months. Following a survey-based characterization of kyol goeu, as well as the prese…
Hit by the Wind' and Temperature-Shift Panic among Vietnamese Refugees
Surveying 60 Vietnamese patients with either current or past post-traumatic stress disorder, this article aims to phenomenologically characterize the syndrome of `hit by the wind' in a multidimensional manner. This includes determining the patient conceptualization of the disorder, profiling `hit by the wind' episodes suffered by patients in the previous month, and presenting case vignettes. Eighteen of the 60 patients (30%) suffered at least one…
Olfactory-Triggered Panic Attacks among Khmer Refugees
One hundred Khmer refugees attending a psychiatric clinic were surveyed to determine the prevalence of olfactory-triggered panic attacks as well as certain characteristics of the episodes, including trigger (i.e. type of odor), frequency, length, somatic symptoms, and the rate of associated flashbacks and catastrophic cognitions. Forty-five of the 100 patients had experienced an olfactory-triggered panic attack in the last month. Trauma associati…
A cultural examination of the DSM-5
Walking Corpse Syndrome
This article introduces Walking Corpse Syndrome, a common idiom of distress in Tamil Sri Lanka that is characterized by a variety of cognitive difficulties, feelings that an individual is functioning reflexively or impulsively, and acute attacks of dissociation that are accompanied with the sensation of empty-headedness. Walking Corpse Syndrome demonstrates some overlap with Western nosology, although it appears to be its own unique illness categ…
I put a stone on my heart and kept going
Clinical variation in the expression of panic disorder, depression and anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has have been documented across cultures. However, local (emic) cultural models that explain how people make sense of their illness experiences remain relatively understudied in India among trauma-exposed populations. Further, the integration of emic findings into clinical care is limited, underscoring the need for emic perspec…
A Unique Panic-Disorder Presentation Among Khmer Refugees
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part II
Kyol goeu(literally, 'wind overload') is an orthostatically triggered syncopal syndrome often found among Khmer refugees in the US. In the present study, 36 of 100 (36%) Khmer patients attending a psychiatric clinic were found to have suffered a kyol goeu episode in the past, whereas 60 of 100 (60%) patients had experienced a near- kyol goeu event in the last six months. Following a survey-based characterization of kyol goeu, as well as the prese…
Kyol Goeu('Wind Overload') Part I
Certain cultural syndromes seem to increase the risk of panic attacks by generating catastrophic cognitions about symptoms of autonomic arousal. These schemas create a constant anxious scanning of the body, hence facilitating, maintaining, and producing panic. As a case in point, a Khmer fainting syndrome,'wind overload' ( kyol goeu), results in dire expectations concerning the autonomic symptoms experienced upon standing, thus contributing to th…
Panic Disorder, Somatization, and the New Cross-cultural Psychiatry
Dizziness and Panic in China
Panic Probes and the Identification of Panic
The Khmer 'Weak Heart' Syndrome
According to the Khmer conception, a person suffering 'weak heart' ( khsaoy beh daung) has episodes of palpitations on slight provocation (e.g. triggered by orthostasis, anger, a noise, worry, an odor or exercise) and runs the risk of dying of heart arrest during these periods of palpitations; too, the sufferer typically has other symptoms attributed to the purported cardiac dysfunction: fatigue, shortness of breath, and orthostatic dizziness. Ma…
Wind Overload' and Orthostatic Panic among Khmer Refugees
Hit by the Wind' and Temperature-Shift Panic among Vietnamese Refugees
Surveying 60 Vietnamese patients with either current or past post-traumatic stress disorder, this article aims to phenomenologically characterize the syndrome of `hit by the wind' in a multidimensional manner. This includes determining the patient conceptualization of the disorder, profiling `hit by the wind' episodes suffered by patients in the previous month, and presenting case vignettes. Eighteen of the 60 patients (30%) suffered at least one…
Olfactory-Triggered Panic Attacks among Khmer Refugees
One hundred Khmer refugees attending a psychiatric clinic were surveyed to determine the prevalence of olfactory-triggered panic attacks as well as certain characteristics of the episodes, including trigger (i.e. type of odor), frequency, length, somatic symptoms, and the rate of associated flashbacks and catastrophic cognitions. Forty-five of the 100 patients had experienced an olfactory-triggered panic attack in the last month. Trauma associati…
Reexamining the Relationships Among Dementia, Stigma, and Aging in Immigrant Chinese and Vietnamese Family Caregivers
Agoraphobia, infinite space, and epistemic rupture
A cultural examination of the DSM-5
Prevalence and Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress and Depression Symptoms Among Syrian Refugees in a Refugee Camp
Turkey is hosting the majority of Syrian refugees. The current study investigates the prevalence of probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among adult Syrians residing in a camp ( N = 781) and potential predictors. The Impact of Event Scale–Revised was used to measure PTSD and the Beck Depression Inventory depression. Probable PTSD prevalence was 83.4%, with predictors being female sex (odds ratio [OR], 4.1), previous mental…
Culturally adapted transdiagnostic CBT for SSRI resistant Turkish adolescents
The most common mental health problems among adolescents are anxiety and mood disorders. While disorder-specific cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is effective for each of these conditions, the comorbidity between anxiety and mood disorders indicates a need for the development of evidence-based transdiagnostic treatments. To examine the efficacy of culturally adapted transdiagnostic CBT (CA-CBT) in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression in tr…
I put a stone on my heart and kept going
Clinical variation in the expression of panic disorder, depression and anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has have been documented across cultures. However, local (emic) cultural models that explain how people make sense of their illness experiences remain relatively understudied in India among trauma-exposed populations. Further, the integration of emic findings into clinical care is limited, underscoring the need for emic perspec…
Walking Corpse Syndrome
This article introduces Walking Corpse Syndrome, a common idiom of distress in Tamil Sri Lanka that is characterized by a variety of cognitive difficulties, feelings that an individual is functioning reflexively or impulsively, and acute attacks of dissociation that are accompanied with the sensation of empty-headedness. Walking Corpse Syndrome demonstrates some overlap with Western nosology, although it appears to be its own unique illness categ…
A Phenomenological Analysis of ‘Thinking a Lot’ Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vietnam
This qualitative study explored Thinking a Lot (TAL), a culturally patterned idiom of distress through which individuals describe and make sense of psychological and somatic suffering, among Vietnamese men who have sex with men (MSM). Between June and October 2018, 197 participants completed a verbally administered standardized questionnaire containing quantitative and qualitative questions about TAL. Qualitative responses were analyzed thematica…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Anxiety (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Panic (8 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (6 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (5 works) · Panic disorder (5 works) · Refugee (5 works)