Roland Littlewood

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Affiliation: University College London
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Commentary: Globalization, culture, body image, and eating disorders
    Roland Litllewood
    Department of Anthropology, University College of London, UK
    Cult Med Psychiatry 28:597-602. 2004
  2. ncbi Apocalyptic suicide: from a pathological to an eschatological interpretation
    Simon Dein
    Department of Psychiatry, University College London, UK
    Int J Soc Psychiatry 51:198-210. 2005
  3. ncbi Colonialism and countertransference: two cases of the sexual abuse of women by doctors
    Roland Littlewood
    University College London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 43:235-42. 2006
  4. ncbi Religion and psychosis: a common evolutionary trajectory?
    Simon Dein
    Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67 Riding House Street, London WC1 7EY, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 48:318-35. 2011
  5. ncbi Strange, incredible and impossible things: the early anthropology of Reginald Scot
    Roland Littlewood
    University College London, United Kingdom
    Transcult Psychiatry 46:348-64. 2009
  6. ncbi A cross-national study of the stigmatization of severe psychiatric illness: historical review, methodological considerations and development of the questionnaire
    Roland Littlewood
    Centre for Medical Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 44:171-202. 2007
  7. ncbi Mental health and intellectual disability: culture and diversity
    R Littlewood
    Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
    J Intellect Disabil Res 50:555-60. 2006
  8. ncbi Religious stigmata, magnetic fluids and conversion hysteria: one survival of 'vital force' theories in scientific medicine?
    Roland Littlewood
    University College Centre for Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 42:596-609. 2005
  9. ncbi Stigmatization of severe mental illness in India: Against the simple industrialization hypothesis
    Sushrut Jadhav
    Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine, London, UK
    Indian J Psychiatry 49:189-94. 2007
  10. ncbi The Dark Night of the Soul: causes and resolution of emotional distress among contemplative nuns
    Glòria Durà-Vilà
    Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 47:548-70. 2010

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Publications10

  1. ncbi Commentary: Globalization, culture, body image, and eating disorders
    Roland Litllewood
    Department of Anthropology, University College of London, UK
    Cult Med Psychiatry 28:597-602. 2004
  2. ncbi Apocalyptic suicide: from a pathological to an eschatological interpretation
    Simon Dein
    Department of Psychiatry, University College London, UK
    Int J Soc Psychiatry 51:198-210. 2005
    ..The authors examine the possible interpretations of apocalyptic suicide--a form of suicide amongst a group which believes that the world will end imminently...
  3. ncbi Colonialism and countertransference: two cases of the sexual abuse of women by doctors
    Roland Littlewood
    University College London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 43:235-42. 2006
    ..Colonial and postcolonial stereotypes evoked by their actions are briefly considered...
  4. ncbi Religion and psychosis: a common evolutionary trajectory?
    Simon Dein
    Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67 Riding House Street, London WC1 7EY, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 48:318-35. 2011
    ..It is suggested that religion and schizophrenia have perhaps had a related evolutionary trajectory...
  5. ncbi Strange, incredible and impossible things: the early anthropology of Reginald Scot
    Roland Littlewood
    University College London, United Kingdom
    Transcult Psychiatry 46:348-64. 2009
    ..This article considers whether his methods and writing might indeed correspond to what we recognise as the procedures of medical or psychiatric anthropology...
  6. ncbi A cross-national study of the stigmatization of severe psychiatric illness: historical review, methodological considerations and development of the questionnaire
    Roland Littlewood
    Centre for Medical Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 44:171-202. 2007
    ..The difficulties of achieving cross-cultural comparability of meaning are discussed and the psychometric properties of the instrument are presented...
  7. ncbi Mental health and intellectual disability: culture and diversity
    R Littlewood
    Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
    J Intellect Disabil Res 50:555-60. 2006
    ..Compared with that in mental illness, cultural variation in popular conceptualisations of intellectual disability has been rarely addressed...
  8. ncbi Religious stigmata, magnetic fluids and conversion hysteria: one survival of 'vital force' theories in scientific medicine?
    Roland Littlewood
    University College Centre for Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 42:596-609. 2005
    ....
  9. ncbi Stigmatization of severe mental illness in India: Against the simple industrialization hypothesis
    Sushrut Jadhav
    Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine, London, UK
    Indian J Psychiatry 49:189-94. 2007
    ..The present study deploys such a scale and examines stigmatizing attitudes towards the severely mentally ill among rural and urban community dwellers in India...
  10. ncbi The Dark Night of the Soul: causes and resolution of emotional distress among contemplative nuns
    Glòria Durà-Vilà
    Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Transcult Psychiatry 47:548-70. 2010
    ..We conclude by discussing the clinical implications of this religious narrative, highlighting the importance of incorporating existential issues into clinical practice...