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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Arthur Kleinman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a substantial body of work primarily in psychology. Their research spans several fields, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics broadly cover child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, suicide and self-harm studies, health psychology and well-being, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, emergency and acute care studies, and child and adolescent health.

Among recent publications, the following papers highlight the scope of their work:

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline crisis chat interventions: Evaluation of chatters' perceptions of effectiveness (2021) in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Varieties of Experiences of Care (2020) in Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • Where is the global in global mental health? A call for inclusive multicultural collaboration (2020) in General Psychiatry
  • Complementing standard western measures of depression with locally co-developed instruments: A cross-cultural study on the experience of depression among the Luo in Kenya (2021) in Transcultural Psychiatry
  • Covid-19 Requires a Social Medicine Response (2020) in Frontiers in Sociology

They frequently collaborate with a group of scholars including Jeanne A. Teresi, Madelyn S. Gould, Alison M. Lake, Hanga Galfalvy, and Katja Ocepek-Welikson. These collaborations indicate interdisciplinary engagement across various aspects of psychology and mental health research.

Arthur Kleinman's work has been published multiple times in notable venues such as Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Daedalus, UNC Libraries, and Genetics in Medicine Open, reflecting a diverse dissemination of research output across conferences and journals.

The scientist has been recognized with multiple fellowships and memberships, which include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1984
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1983
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1992
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992

Best Publications

  • Patients and healers in the context of culture : an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry

    Arthur Kleinman

  • The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research

    Arthur Kleinman;Leon Eisenberg;Byron J. Good

  • Patients and healers in the context of culture

    Arthur Kleinman

  • The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

    Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Graham Thornicroft

  • Grand challenges in global mental health

    Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

  • Culture and stigma: adding moral experience to stigma theory.

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Arthur Kleinman;Bruce G. Link;Jo C. Phelan

  • Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries

    Vikram Harshad Patel;Arthur Michael Kleinman

  • Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Depression, somatization and the “new cross-cultural psychiatry”

    Arthur M. Kleinman

  • Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It

    Arthur Kleinman;Peter Benson

  • Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative

    S. K. Goldsmith;T. C. Pellmar;A. M. Kleinman;W. E. Bunney

  • Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems

    Arthur Kleinman

  • World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries

    Robert Desjarlais;Leon Eisenberg;Byron Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • Writing at the margin : discourse between anthropology and medicine

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Culture and depression.

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Anthropology and psychiatry. The role of culture in cross-cultural research on illness.

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China

    Arthur Kleinman

  • Depression and somatization: a review: Part I

    Wayne Katon;Arthur Kleinman;Gary Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mechanic
David Mechanic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Byron J. Good
Byron J. Good Harvard University
Sing Lee
Sing Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University
Joseph D. Tucker
Joseph D. Tucker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Margaret Lock
Margaret Lock McGill University
Wayne Katon
Wayne Katon University of Washington
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Alex S. Cohen
Alex S. Cohen Louisiana State University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University

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