"The proposed book has no competition. It will become the book on cultural influences that all future work in pain medicine must cite."

"This maximum impact book can be what sports journalists call a “game-changer."

NEW BOOK!

Edited by Mario Incayawar, MD, MSc., DESS, Ron Wintrob, MD and Lise Bouchard, PhD. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK, 2009

This book is a major Runajambi achievement.  It is the result of a joint effort of Runajambi and the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.  The book is also a fruitful development of the International symposium "Psychiatrists and Healers: Unwitting Partners - A Challenge for Transcultural Psychiatry  in Times of Globalization," held in Quito, Ecuador in 2005. The symposium was organized by Runajambi and sponsored by the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.  For our symposium details, click

SUBMITTED AND IN PREPARATION

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  The Analgesic Effect of Daring Words - A Glimpse to the Quichua Cultural Brain.  In preparation.

Lise Bouchard. Understanding Pain in the Medical Encounter: a Linguistic Approach.  In Incayawar M, Todd, K (eds.) Culture, Brain and Analgesia; Oxford University Press. In preparation.

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  Exploring Pain in the Andes – The Ailing Idioms of the Quichua (Inca) People.  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.  Submitted.

Lise Bouchard. Quichua Jambi Shimicuna A multilingual medical lexicon (Quichua Spanish-French-English). In preparation.

Lise Bouchard. Quichua Belief System on Language Acquisition and Social Use: Cultural Resilience in Quichua-Spanish Contact. Anthropological Linguistics. Submitted.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mario Incayawar, Lise Bouchard and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  Living without Psychiatrists in the Andes - The Indigenous Peoples' Plight and Resilience.  Asia-Pacific Psychiatry 2010;2:119-125. DOI

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  Pain in Remote Andean Communities – Learning from the Quichua’s (Inca) Experiences. Rural and Remote Health 10, 2010: 1379.

Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  The Forsaken Mental Health of the Indigenous Peoples – A Moral Case of Outrageous Exclusion in Latin America.  BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009;9:27.

Mario Incayawar.  Psychiatric Case Identification Skills of Yachactaita (Quichua Healers of the Andes).  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Order at Amazon.com

Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  South American Indigenous Knowledge of Psychotropics - The Need for Culturally Adapted Intellectual Property Rights.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.  Free

Mario Incayawar.  Future Partnerships in Global Mental Health - Foreseeing the Encounter of Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Free

Lise Bouchard.  The Awakening of Collaboration Beetween Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Free

Mario Incayawar.  Efficacy of Quichua Healers as Psychiatric Diagnosticians. British Journal of Psychiatry 2008;192:390-391.    

Mario Incayawar. Indigenous Peoples of South America – Inequalities in Mental Health Care. In Textbook of Culture and Mental Health Disorder, Kamaldeep Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra (eds.) London: Arnold Publishing, 2007 Free

Lise Bouchard.  Pharmaceutical Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Mario Incayawar.  Indigenous Knowledge - Medical Contributions of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005. Free

Mario Incayawar and Goffredo Bartocci.  Transcultural Psychiatry: perspectives on the cultural variations and the use of the dimension of the supernatural. In Advances in Psychiatry (Editor: G. N. Christodoulou) Vol II, pp 231-235. World Psychiatric Association Publications, 2006.

Mario Incayawar.  Are Yachactaitas (Quichua Healers) Good Diagnosticians? Transcultural Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association Newsletter 2001;19(2):11-13.