Depression, Buddhism, and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23366302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gananath Obeyesekere (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Pages | 134-152 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Culture and Depression (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520340923-007 |
| OpenAlex | W3136381751 |
| ISBN | 9780520340923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
Archaeology · Buddhism · Depression (economics) · Economics · Geography · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Traditional medicine · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Cultural Constructivism
Therapeutic practices in everyday life
Notes Toward a Coming Backlash
Symptoms of Colonialism
The Production of Possession
Measuring psychiatric disorder among Southeast Asian refugees
“Pain” and “suffering” in cross-linguistic perspective
Interrogating the Meaning of “Culture” in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia
Idioms of Distress
Ethics Inside the Black Box
L’étranger à la porte
What personality can teach us about mental health
Se rétablir après une crise psychotique
The Cultural Psychological Approach to Religion
Confluence of Western Psychotherapy and Religious Teachings in Mental Healthcare of an Asian Buddhist Community
Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology
The Dark Night of the Soul
Becoming a patient-illness representations of depression of Anglo-Australian and Sri Lankan patients through the lens of Leventhal’s illness representational model
Buddhist Models of Existential Crisis in Āryaśūra’s Jātakamālā
The Production of Possession
Interpretations of schizophrenia
Ethnographies of new clinical encounters
The Dreamwork of the Symptom
Idioms of Distress Revisited
Strategies of suffering and their interpretation(s)
Consumption by semen loss in India and elsewhere
Suffering, Frustration, and Anger
Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian society
Interpersonal conflict and emotions in an iranian cultural practice
Writing Amish Culture Into Genes
Weak Kidney and Panic Attacks in a Traumatized Vietnamese Male
Facts and meaning in psychiatry. An anthropological approach to the lifeworld of schizophrenics
Symptoms of Depression in Elderly Korean Immigrants
Poetic transformations of yolmo ?sadness
Depression
This is Passion, and Where it Goes
Resilience, Agency, and Everyday Lojong in the Tibetan Diaspora
A patologização da diversidade. Uma reflexão antropológica sobre a noção de culture-bound syndrome
Catastrophic stress and factors affecting its consequences among Southeast Asian refugees
El giro saludable
Perceptions of Mental Illness and Related Stigma Among Vietnamese Populations
Healing time
Isliye dard hota hai
Psychiatric investigations among American Indians and Alaska natives
Cross-Cultural Research on Alzheimer's Disease
Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon
Individuation and Attachment in Israel and Thailand
Theorizing the Relationship Between HIV/Aids, Biomedicine, and Culture Using an Urban Indian Setting as a Case Study
Making psychiatric history
Between Enlightenment and Madness
The Socio-Genesis of Psychological Distress in Developing Countries
Narratives of privatization
Self-care strategy of elderly Korean immigrants in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area
Cross-cultural measurements of psychological well-being
The Health of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
Response to Commentaries
The Pollution of Incontinence and the Dirty Work of Caregiving in a U.S. Nursing Home
Dwelling in the place of devastation
What, why and how? Meta-Reflections on Cultural Psychological Approaches to the Scientific Study of Phenomena Called Religious
Emotional Oppositions
L'échappée de l'expérience dans la psychose
Depression Narratives in Blogs
The politics of moral practice in psychotherapy and religious healing
Introduction
Endnote
Girl still burning inside my head
The Transformation of Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark
You Will Never Forget
Managing the Heart to Brighten Face and Soul
Semen, Irony, and the Atom Bomb
Suffering and the Work of Culture
Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters)
Three Days for Weeping
Orthostatic Panic as a Key Vietnamese Reaction to Traumatic Events
Depressive Illness and Navajo Healing
Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture
Flesh, Blood, Souls, and Households
Seeking Gifts from the Dead
To the Afterworld and Back
Coping with Bereavement
Emotional Liberty
Toward an Experience-Near Anthropology
Darker than midnight
Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk
Divided Consciousness and Enlightenment in Hindu Yogis
Perspectives on the Meanings of Symptoms among Cambodian Refugees
The Relevance of Person-Centered Ethnography to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale
In our community, a friend is a psychologist
Mindfulness in cultural context
The contemporary mindfulness movement and the question of nonself
Healing history? Aboriginal healing, historical trauma, and personal responsibility
Shared Death
Resettling Refugees and Safeguarding their Mental Health
Coming to Our Senses
Views on Depression among Patients Diagnosed as Depressed in a Poor Town on the Outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil
Religious Construction of a First Episode of Psychosis in Urban Brazil
Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World
Wind Overload' and Orthostatic Panic among Khmer Refugees
Trauma Stories
| Unique citing works | 109 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,73 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2026 (41) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |