DR Orkideh Behrouzan's Outputs (13)

High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India (2023)
Thesis
Rijneveld, C. J. High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is an ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India, a demographic that is underrepresented in HIV/Aids research. It explores the effects of the biomedicalization of the HIV/Aids epidemic over the past decad... Read More about High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India.

Ruptures and Their Afterlife: A Cultural Critique of Trauma (2018)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O. (2018). Ruptures and Their Afterlife: A Cultural Critique of Trauma. Middle East - Topics & arguments, 11, 131-144. https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2018.11.7798

Remaking the Craft: Reflections on Pedagogy, Ethnography, and Anthropology in Iran. (2018)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O. (2018). Remaking the Craft: Reflections on Pedagogy, Ethnography, and Anthropology in Iran. American Anthropologist, 120(1), 144-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12994

Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (2016)
Book
Behrouzan, O. (2016). Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804799591

Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were on... Read More about Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran.

Beyond 'trauma': Notes on mental health in the Middle East (2015)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O. (2015). Beyond 'trauma': Notes on mental health in the Middle East. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.2.3.296

Medicalisation As A Way of Life: The Iran-Iraq War and considerations for psychiatry and anthropology (2015)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O. (2015). Medicalisation As A Way of Life: The Iran-Iraq War and considerations for psychiatry and anthropology. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(3), 40-60. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.2.3.199

Most debates on postwar mental health focus on clinical evaluations of veterans’ and civilians’ individual experiences of wartime ‘trauma’. But the psychological afterlife and the social discord that wars create cannot be reduced to a clinical artifa... Read More about Medicalisation As A Way of Life: The Iran-Iraq War and considerations for psychiatry and anthropology.

Negotiating Health and Life: Syrian Refugees and The Politics of Access in Lebanon. (2015)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O., & Parkinson, S. E. (2015). Negotiating Health and Life: Syrian Refugees and The Politics of Access in Lebanon. Social Science & Medicine, 146, 324-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.008

In the context of ongoing armed conflicts in Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, it is vital to foster nuanced understandings of the relationship between health, violence, and everyday life in the Middle East and North Africa. In this article, we explore... Read More about Negotiating Health and Life: Syrian Refugees and The Politics of Access in Lebanon..

Writing Prozāk Diaries in Tehran: Generational Anomie and Psychiatric Subjectivities (2015)
Journal Article
Behrouzan, O. (2015). Writing Prozāk Diaries in Tehran: Generational Anomie and Psychiatric Subjectivities. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 39(3), 399-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-014-9425-4

I explore the historical and cultural shifts that underlie the normalization of the term de´pre´shen and the emergence of public psychiatric discourses in 1990s Iran. I do this by investigating the cultural sensibilities of a particular generation, t... Read More about Writing Prozāk Diaries in Tehran: Generational Anomie and Psychiatric Subjectivities.

Beyond Trauma: Notes on Emerging Agendas for Understanding Mental Health in the Middle East - Special Issue (2015)
Other
Beyond Trauma: Notes on Emerging Agendas for Understanding Mental Health in the Middle East - Special Issue. Edinburgh

'Behaves Like a Rooster and Cries Like a (four-eyed) Canine': The Politics and Poetics of Depression and Psychiatry in Iran (2014)
Book Chapter
Behrouzan, O., & Fischer, M. M. J. (2014). 'Behaves Like a Rooster and Cries Like a (four-eyed) Canine': The Politics and Poetics of Depression and Psychiatry in Iran. In D. E. Hinton, & A. L. Hinton (Eds.), Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery (105-136). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706859.007

The Psychological Impact of the Iraq War (2013)
Other
Behrouzan, O. (2013). The Psychological Impact of the Iraq War

An epidemic of meanings: HIV and AIDS in Iran and the significance of history, language and gender (2010)
Book Chapter
Behrouzan, O. (2010). An epidemic of meanings: HIV and AIDS in Iran and the significance of history, language and gender. In J. F. Klot, & V.-K. Nguyen (Eds.), The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century (319-346). Social Science Research Council; UNESCO