Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State
This article presents two cases from a collaborative study among Tibetan monastic populations in India on the postdeath meditative state called tukdam (thugs dam). Entered by advanced Tibetan Buddhist practitioners through a variety of different practices, this state provides an ontological frame that is investigated by two distinct intellectual traditions-the Tibetan Buddhist and medical tradition on one hand and the Euroamerican biomedical and scientific tradition on the other-using their respective means of inquiry. Through the investigation, the traditions enact two paradigms of the body at the time of death alongside ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tawni L Tidwell Source Type: research
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of "seesaw precarity." We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day t...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Katherine A Mason Jianmei Xie Source Type: research
Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State
This article presents two cases from a collaborative study among Tibetan monastic populations in India on the postdeath meditative state called tukdam (thugs dam). Entered by advanced Tibetan Buddhist practitioners through a variety of different practices, this state provides an ontological frame that is investigated by two distinct intellectual traditions-the Tibetan Buddhist and medical tradition on one hand and the Euroamerican biomedical and scientific tradition on the other-using their respective means of inquiry. Through the investigation, the traditions enact two paradigms of the body at the time of death alongside ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tawni L Tidwell Source Type: research
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of "seesaw precarity." We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day t...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Katherine A Mason Jianmei Xie Source Type: research
Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State
This article presents two cases from a collaborative study among Tibetan monastic populations in India on the postdeath meditative state called tukdam (thugs dam). Entered by advanced Tibetan Buddhist practitioners through a variety of different practices, this state provides an ontological frame that is investigated by two distinct intellectual traditions-the Tibetan Buddhist and medical tradition on one hand and the Euroamerican biomedical and scientific tradition on the other-using their respective means of inquiry. Through the investigation, the traditions enact two paradigms of the body at the time of death alongside ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tawni L Tidwell Source Type: research
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of "seesaw precarity." We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day t...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Katherine A Mason Jianmei Xie Source Type: research
Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State
This article presents two cases from a collaborative study among Tibetan monastic populations in India on the postdeath meditative state called tukdam (thugs dam). Entered by advanced Tibetan Buddhist practitioners through a variety of different practices, this state provides an ontological frame that is investigated by two distinct intellectual traditions-the Tibetan Buddhist and medical tradition on one hand and the Euroamerican biomedical and scientific tradition on the other-using their respective means of inquiry. Through the investigation, the traditions enact two paradigms of the body at the time of death alongside ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tawni L Tidwell Source Type: research
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of "seesaw precarity." We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day t...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Katherine A Mason Jianmei Xie Source Type: research
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 19. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09845-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMorita therapy is known as a psychotherapy grounded in the culture of Japan, particularly its Buddhist culture. Its popularity in Japan and other East Asian countries is cited as an example of the relevance and importance of culture and religion in psychotherapy. To complement such interpretations, this study adopts a socio-historical approach to examine the role and significance of work in Morita's theory and practice within the broader work environment and culture of the 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Morita conceptualized shinkei...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yu-Chuan Wu Source Type: research
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 19. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09845-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMorita therapy is known as a psychotherapy grounded in the culture of Japan, particularly its Buddhist culture. Its popularity in Japan and other East Asian countries is cited as an example of the relevance and importance of culture and religion in psychotherapy. To complement such interpretations, this study adopts a socio-historical approach to examine the role and significance of work in Morita's theory and practice within the broader work environment and culture of the 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Morita conceptualized shinkei...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yu-Chuan Wu Source Type: research
Work, Self, and Society: A Socio-historical Study of Morita Therapy
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 19. doi: 10.1007/s11013-024-09845-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMorita therapy is known as a psychotherapy grounded in the culture of Japan, particularly its Buddhist culture. Its popularity in Japan and other East Asian countries is cited as an example of the relevance and importance of culture and religion in psychotherapy. To complement such interpretations, this study adopts a socio-historical approach to examine the role and significance of work in Morita's theory and practice within the broader work environment and culture of the 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Morita conceptualized shinkei...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yu-Chuan Wu Source Type: research
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women
This article details the findings of a study of common distress terminology among 63 Kannada-speaking Hindu women living in Mysuru, the second largest city in the state of Karnataka, South India. Very little existing scholarship focuses on cultural adaptation for speakers of Dravidian languages like Kannada; this study aims to fill this gap and support greater representation of this linguistic family in research on mental health, idioms of distress, and distress terminology. Between 2018 and 2019, we conducted a 3-phase study consisting of interviews, data reduction, and focus group discussions. The goal was to produce a n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lesley Jo Weaver Shivamma Nanjaiah Fazila Begum Nagalambika Ningaiah Karl Krupp Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women
This article details the findings of a study of common distress terminology among 63 Kannada-speaking Hindu women living in Mysuru, the second largest city in the state of Karnataka, South India. Very little existing scholarship focuses on cultural adaptation for speakers of Dravidian languages like Kannada; this study aims to fill this gap and support greater representation of this linguistic family in research on mental health, idioms of distress, and distress terminology. Between 2018 and 2019, we conducted a 3-phase study consisting of interviews, data reduction, and focus group discussions. The goal was to produce a n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lesley Jo Weaver Shivamma Nanjaiah Fazila Begum Nagalambika Ningaiah Karl Krupp Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women
This article details the findings of a study of common distress terminology among 63 Kannada-speaking Hindu women living in Mysuru, the second largest city in the state of Karnataka, South India. Very little existing scholarship focuses on cultural adaptation for speakers of Dravidian languages like Kannada; this study aims to fill this gap and support greater representation of this linguistic family in research on mental health, idioms of distress, and distress terminology. Between 2018 and 2019, we conducted a 3-phase study consisting of interviews, data reduction, and focus group discussions. The goal was to produce a n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lesley Jo Weaver Shivamma Nanjaiah Fazila Begum Nagalambika Ningaiah Karl Krupp Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women
This article details the findings of a study of common distress terminology among 63 Kannada-speaking Hindu women living in Mysuru, the second largest city in the state of Karnataka, South India. Very little existing scholarship focuses on cultural adaptation for speakers of Dravidian languages like Kannada; this study aims to fill this gap and support greater representation of this linguistic family in research on mental health, idioms of distress, and distress terminology. Between 2018 and 2019, we conducted a 3-phase study consisting of interviews, data reduction, and focus group discussions. The goal was to produce a n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - February 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lesley Jo Weaver Shivamma Nanjaiah Fazila Begum Nagalambika Ningaiah Karl Krupp Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
