Seeing Depression Through A Cultural Lens

ISBN-13: 9780190850074 / Twarda / 2025 / 688 str.

independent schola Xiaoling (independent scholar and writer

O autorze

Barry S. Fogel, M.D. is an academic psychiatrist and neurologist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Brain/Mind Medicine. He has devoted his career to the study and improvement of care at the interface of psychiatry, neurology, and general medicine. He co-founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the International Neuropsychiatric Association. His current research focuses on analysis of big data to assess the impact of personal identity on the presentation on outcomes of depression, and on developing a new drug for neuropsychiatric disorders including movement disorders, PTSD, autistic stereotypies, and tinnitus. Xiaoling Jiang, Ph.D. is a scholar of comparative literature and culture. She received her higher education in China, Japan, and the United States. She served on the faculties of Kobe University and Harvard University, and was on the editorial board of Culture Studies, China's leading journal of comparative culture. She is fluently trilingual, and personally tricultural. Since completing her work on this book, her academic focus has been the mental health of Asian college students in English-speaking countries and its relationship to issues of cultural identity and cultural conflict.