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Randomistas, development economics, and the poetry of evaluation
Last week’s New Yorker featured an engaging portrait by Ian Parker of MIT development economist Esther Duflo, perhaps the leading light among that field’s “randomistas.” These (mostly) young economists...
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Article addendum: Stressors during wartime
The April 2010 issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry includes an article comparing the effects of war-related trauma on mental health to effects of the “current stressors” one finds in...
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A “daily stressors & trauma” debate & the temptation of mental health...
In a special issue on “Conflict, violence and health” earlier this year, Social Science and Medicine published an editorial on trauma-focused versus psychosocial perspectives in humanitarian aid that...
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The Catholic bishops’ exorcism workshop: Distinguishing demonic possession...
Next week, Catholic bishops from around the US will meet in Baltimore for their general assembly. As happens before many large conferences, this weekend attendees can take a workshop in order to...
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NIMH, LMICs, & CHIRMH: Funding for global mental health research
Back in March of this year I wrote about Vikram Patel’s call for more international mental health research: As for research, Dr. Patel noted that 90% of mental health research is done in the developed...
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More from McGill’s Summer Program: The Affliction Film Series
McGill University’s Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry is not just about the differences between Swedes and Irish. As part of the summer program’s keynote course, Cultural Psychiatry,...
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Article supplement: Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees
The September 2011 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is out, and it includes an article by myself and some colleagues based on some work we did with Darfur refugees a few years ago. Publication lag...
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Looking for graduate school applicants for research in forced migration,...
Fall is graduate school application time, as many programs have application deadlines in October, November and December. I have recently moved to Fordham University’s Department of Psychology, and will...
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Partners in Health fellowship in Global Mental Health
The good people up at Partners in Health in Boston have an opening for a postdoctoral position in global mental health. Here’s the spiel: Please see the following link for post-graduate fellowship...
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Global Mental Health Capacity Building at the 2012 ISTSS Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), this year held in Los Angeles, wrapped up this weekend. This year’s theme, Beyond Boundaries: Innovations to Expand...
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Cognitive processing therapy for rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of...
Last week saw the publication of an important randomized control trial of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for Congolese survivors of sexual assault in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM — and...
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