PSYD31: Cultural-Clinical Psychology

"The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Los Angeles that supports and advances interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship at the intersection of psychology, culture, neuroscience, and psychiatry, with an emphasis on cultural factors as central, not peripheral."

"The MMHRC provides access to resources to support culturally safe and competent mental health care for Canada's diverse population. Please join us to build a community of practice."

"Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness in Indonesia is a documentary film series that examines the lives of severely mentally ill people living on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java. Afflictions is based on more than a decade of clinical ethnographic research conducted by documentary filmmaker and anthropologist Dr. Robert Lemelson."

"Early in the twentieth century German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin travelled to Indonesia to see how mental illnesses there compared to what he knew back home. Transcultural psychiatry was born. Today McGill University is a world leader in the research and practice of a branch of psychiatry with links to anthropology, cultural studies and family therapy. David Gutnick steps into a world where treatment relies less on medication and more on talk and understanding."

This special issue of the "Current Opinion in Psychology" journal brings together the most recent evidence for the proposition that culture is essential to human psychology.

This issue of "Frontiers Research Topics" highlights contributions from influential researchers on key findings and historical advances in the area of cultural-clinical psychology.