The fluidity of communicative practices in current intercultural communication research raises difficult questions about how we understand core concepts the field. Links between linguistic resources, other modes, and cultures are created situ suggesting that relationships ‘named' languages cannot be taken for granted. We frequently see emergent cultural references which neither part any one cul...

This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry in honour of Alexander Leighton. A sketch of his research career is followed by a discussion of the work of his wife, Dr. Jane Murphy, first on St. Lawrence Island, near the Bering Strait, and later as a key figure in the Stirling County project. A brief conclusion highlights the main aspects of their joint legacy to cultural...

El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la estructura factorial e invarianza inventario de ideación suicida positiva y negativa PANSI con una muestra Colombia México, como evidencia validez constructo instrumento su capacidad medición transcultural. Se contó 815 adultos (402 mexicanos 413 colombianos), edad media 30.08 años (DE = 12.05). Los resultados obtenidos arrojaron los dos factores correlac...

My introductory essay discusses some of transculturalism’s enduring conceptual challenges from the perspective of the history of German cultural and political theory. I am particularly interested in the discursive space between Immanuel Kant’s individualism and Johann Gottfried Herder’s and Moses Mendelssohn’s concepts of cultural identity. My hope is that such a discussion can enrich some of o...

To be a psychosocially competent person, each of us has to have both an internal and an external perspective on our self and our culture, a transcultural ethnic validity perspective. This conclusion is supported by a logical and empirical examination of how we know who we are and use our own judgmental capabilities to guide and change our lives and our situations. Particular emphasis is placed ...

Keeping in mind the shortcomings of previous transcultural studies on depression, we have compared in detail the symptomatology of depression, between samples from India and U.S.A. taking them to be representatives of eastern and western cultures respectively. Symptoms of fifty patients from India are compared with the same set of symptoms of sixty four patients of depression reported from U.S....

Glycemic control among patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in Malaysia is suboptimal, especially after the continuous worsening over the past decade. Improved glycemic control may be achieved through a comprehensive management strategy that includes medical nutrition therapy (MNT). Evidence-based recommendations for diabetes-specific therapeutic diets are available inte...