In this article I discuss my career in cultural psychiatry. I begin by examining the influence of my personal background on my interests in cultural psychiatry and religion and health. I then discuss my research, which has focused upon two areas: the cognitive and phenomenological parallels between religious experiences and psychopathological states, and relationships between biomedicine and religious healing in diverse cultural contexts. Finally, I discuss plans for future research and teaching.
Bartocci, G., & Dein, S. ( 2005). Detachment: Gateway to the world of spirituality. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42(4), 545-569.
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Bhui, K., King, M., & Dein, S. ( 2008). Ethnic variations in use of religious coping for mental distress: A qualitative study from a national sample in the UK. Journal of Mental Health, 17(2), 141-151.
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Dein, S. ( 1992). The management of illness by a Filipino psychic surgeon: A Western physician’s impression. Social Science and Medicine, 34(4), 461-464.
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Dein, S. ( 1997). Lubavitch: A contemporary messianic movement. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 12, 191-204.
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Dein, S. ( 2001). What really happens when prophecy fails: The case of Lubavitch. Sociology of Religion, 62(3), 383-401.
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Dein, S. ( 2002a). The power of words: Healing narratives among Lubavitcher Hasidim. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 16(1), 41-62.
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Dein, S. ( 2002b). Mosiach is here now: Just open your eyes and you can see him. Anthropology and Medicine, 9(1), 25-36.
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Dein, S. ( 2004). Religion and healing among the Lubavitch community in Stamford Hill, North London: A case study of Hasidism. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
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Dein, S. ( 2005). Spirituality, psychiatry and participation. A cultural analysis. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42(4), 526-544.
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Dein, S. ( 2006a). Depression, spirituality and religion: Implications for research and treatment. Primary Care and Community Psychiatry , 11(2), 67-72.
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Dein, S. ( 2006b). The use and expectations of prayer in women with breast cancer. Healing Ministry, 13(4).
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Dein, S. ( 2007). Seraphs and Snakes: Spirituality, Agency and Psychopathology . Primary Care and Community Psychiatry, 12(4), 117-123.
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Dein, S. ( 2009). Becoming a fulfilled Jew: An ethnographic study of a British Messianic Jewish congregation. Nova Religio, 12(3), 77-101.
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Dein, S. ( 2010). Lubavitcher Messianism: What really happens when prophecy fails?London, UK: Continuum.
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Dein, S., Alexander, M., & Napier, D. ( 2008). Jinn, psychiatry and contested notions of misfortune among East London Bangladeshis. Transcultural Psychiatry, 45(1), 31-55.
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Dein, S., & Dawson, L. ( 2008). The ‘‘scandal’’ of the Lubavitch Rebbe: Messianism as a response to failed prophecy. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 23(2), 163-180.
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Dein, S., & Littlewood, R. (2005). Apocalyptic suicide: From pathological to an eschatological interpretation. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 51(3), 198-210.
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Dein, S., & Littlewood, R. (2007). The voice of God. Anthropology and Medicine, 14(2), 213-228.
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Dein, S., & Littlewood, R. (2008). The psychology of prayer and the development of the prayer experience questionnaire. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 11, 39-52.
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Dein, S., & Littlewood, R. (accepted). Religion and psychosis: A common evolutionary trajectory. Transcultural Psychiatry.
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Dein, S., & Sembhi, S. ( 2001). The use of traditional healing in South Asian psychiatric patients in the UK: Interactions between professional and folk psychiatries . Transcultural Psychiatry, 38(2), 245-259.
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Durà Vilà, G., Dein, S., Littlewood, R., & Leavey, G. ( 2010). The Dark Night of the Soul: Causes and resolution of emotional distress among contemplative nuns. Transcultural Psychiatry, 47, 548-570.
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King, M., & Dein, S. ( 1998). The spiritual variable in psychiatric research. Psychological Medicine, 28, 1259-1262.
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Littlewood, R., & Dein, S. ( 1995). The effectiveness of words: Religion and healing among the Lubavitch of Stamford Hill. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry , 19, 339-383.
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Prince, R. ( 1992). Religious experience and psychopathology: Cross cultural perspectives. In J. Schumaker (Ed.), Religion and mental health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
