Transcultural Psychiatry
Now included in Thomson Reuters’ (ISI) Journal Citation Reports in both Psychiatry and Anthropology.
Transcultural Psychiatry is a fully peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on cultural psychiatry and mental health. Transcultural Psychiatry provides a channel of communication for psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, and social scientists concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.
"Bridging the disciplines, Transcultural Psychiatry is devoted to an encyclopedic examination of the relationship between culture and psychiatry. Theoretically and geographically comprehensive, it makes indispensable reading for everyone interested in mental health." Margaret Lock, McGill University, Canada
"The oldest and still one of the most authoritative and important scholarly and professional resources in the study of cross-cultural psychopathology and psychotherapy... Essential reading for clinicians, researchers, and students." Anthony J. Marsella, University of Hawaii, USA
"Many of us have come to rely on the thoughtful and thorough reviews of key topics and critical issues we have come to expect from the journal." Mitchell Weiss, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland
"The oldest and still the most prestigious journal in the field." Wolfgang Jilek, World Psychiatric Association
Electronic Access:
Transcultural Psychiatry is available to browse online.
Transcultural Psychiatry is a fully peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on cultural psychiatry and mental health. Cultural psychiatry is concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the range of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities. In addition to the research methods of psychiatry, it draws from the disciplines of epidemiology, medical anthropology and cultural psychology.
Transcultural Psychiatry publishes original research reports, systematic reviews, case reports, book reviews and letters to the editor on all topics relevant to cultural psychiatry and mental health, including:
- social and cultural factors that influence the origins, course and treatment of psychiatric disorders
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the mental health of indigenous peoples, ethnocultural minorities, immigrants and refugees
- indigenous psychiatric theory and practice (ethnopsychiatry) including scientific evaluation of the knowledge and methods of traditional healing systems
- cultural critique of biomedical ('Western') psychiatric theory and practice
- international and cross-national research and practice in mental health.
Transcultural Psychiatry began publication in 1956 (as Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review) to provide a forum for communication between psychiatrists and social scientists around the world concerned with the relationship between culture and mental health and is essential for clinicians working in multicultural or intercultural settings and for research workers in the borderlands between psychiatry, psychology and anthropology.
| Eric Jarvis | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Laurence J Kirmayer | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Dörte Bemme | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Renato D. Alarcón | Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University, Peru |
| Roland Littlewood | University College, London, UK |
| Leslie P Swartz | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Danielle Groleau | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Carol Kidron | University of Haifa, Israel |
| Robert Whitley | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Marina Doucerin | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Andrew Rasmussen | Fordham University, USA |
| Andrew G. Ryder | Concordia University, Canada |
| Neil Aggarwal | New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA |
| Kamaldeep Bhui | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Simon Dein | University College London, UK |
| Jaswant Guzder | McGill University, Canada |
| Eric Jarvis | McGill University, Canada |
| Rachel Kronick | McGill University, Canada |
| Toby Measham | McGill University, Canada |
| Lucie Nadeau | McGill University, Canada |
| Eugene Raikhel | University of Chicago, USA |
| Hans Rohlof | National Dutch Psychotrauma Centre, Netherlands |
| Cécile Rousseau | McGill University, Canada |
| Mónica Ruiz-Casares | McGill University, Quebec, Canada |
| Michel Tousignant | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Allan Young | King’s College London, UK |
| Sofie Baarnhielm | Transcultural Centre, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Morton Beiser | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Yoram Bilu | The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Joop de Jong | Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Shigeyuki Eguchi | Musashino Hospital, Japan |
| Mohammed Fakhr El-Islam | Cairo University, Egypt |
| Edvard Hauff | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Devon E. Hinton | Harvard University, USA |
| Sushrut Jadhav | University College London, UK |
| Kenji Kitanishi | Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan |
| Arthur Kleinman | Harvard University, USA |
| Sing Lee | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Roberto Lewis-Fernández | Columbia University, USA |
| Keh-Ming Lin | National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan |
| Fernando Lolas | University of Chile, Santiago, Chile |
| Steven Lopez | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Wielant Machleidt | Medical School of Hannover, Germany |
| Anthony J Marsella | University of Hawaii, USA |
| Juan E Mezzich | City University of New York, USA |
| Harry Minas | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Seggane Musisi | Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda |
| Vikram Patel | Sangath Centre, Goa, India |
| Alberto Perales Cabrera | National Institute of Mental Health, Lima, Peru |
| Richard Rechtman | Research Director, EHESS, member, CESPRA (Centre of sociological and political studies Raymond Aron), France |
| Derrick Silove | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Mitchell Weiss | Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland |
| Nicole D’Souza | McGill University, Canada |
| Samuel Paul Louis Veissière | McGill University, Canada |
| Elizaveta Solomonova | McGill University, Canada |
| Em Walsh | McGill University, Canada |
How to submit your manuscript
Transcultural Psychiatry is hosted on Manuscript Central™, a web based online submission and peer review system - SageTRACK. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/TC_PSYCH to login and submit your article online.
Once an article has been accepted in the system, it is sent to the Editor-in-Chief and his team of Editors for scientific editing. We aim to keep any delays to online publication to a minimum but we are keen to ensure the best quality control for the journal.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is possible that you will have had an account created.
All papers except for book reviews and letters to the editor must be submitted via the online system. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please refer to the contact details below.
Transcultural Psychiatry adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within 8-10 weeks of submission.
All manuscripts should follow the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition and must be typewritten and double-spaced.
Original articles and overviews should be accompanied by an abstract of between 150-250 words and about five key words, plus a cover sheet providing authors' postal/email addresses and tel/fax numbers.
Maximum article length:
Review Articles -- text: 5000-7000 words, abstract: 250, tables and figures: 5 (total).
Articles (original quantitative research -- text: 3500-5000 words, abstract: 250, tables and figures: 5 (total).
Articles (original qualitative or mixed-methods research) -- text: 5000- 7500, abstract: 250, tables and figures: 5 (total).
(Additional tables, figures or materials can be submitted in a separate file as supplemental data for posting online, subject to meeting the requirements stated in the :
Guidelines for Authors - Supplemental data on SJO
UK or US spellings are acceptable but must be consistent.
Section headings and subheadings should use a maximum of three levels.
Quotations over 40 words should be displayed, indented, in the text.
Notes and References should appear at the end of the text. References must be in American Psychological Association format.
Tables and figures should have short descriptive titles. Line diagrams should be supplied preferably as EPS or TIFF files, 800 dpi - b/w only. Photographs should be supplied as TIFF files, 300 dpi.
Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Corresponding authors will receive access to a pdf of their article after publication.
Address correspondence to: L.J. Kirmayer, Editor-in-chief, Transcultural Psychiatry, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1A1.
Tel: (514) 398-7302; fax (514) 398-4370 [email: transcultural.psychiatry@sagepub.com]
Please submit book reviews and letters to the editor to:
Email: transcultural.psychiatry@sagepub.com
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