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According to Wikipedia, Armando Favazza is an Americann author and psychiatrist best known for his studies of cultural psychiatry, deliberate self-harm, and religion. Favazza's Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry was an early psychiatric book on this topic. His 2004 work, PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion, and the Holy Book presents objective data regarding commonly held misconceptions about the Bible as a whole as well as its major passages. In Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry he has written the chapter on "Anthropology and Psychiatry" in the 3rd edition , the 4th edition and the 8th edition , as well as the chapter on "Spirituality and Psychiatry" in the 9th edition . He has published two cover articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry: "Foundations of Cultural Psychiatry" [135:293-303,1978] and "Modern Christian Healing of Mental Illness" [139:728-735,1982]. In 1979 he co-founded The Society for the Study of Culture and Psychiatry.

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Armando Favazza's Published Works

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The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice (1998) (1356)
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (1988) (835)
The coming of age of self-mutilation. (1998) (745)
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, 4th ed. (2004) (518)
Bodies under siege : self-mutilation and body modification in culture and psychiatry (1996) (472)
Female habitual self‐mutilators (1989) (454)
Diagnostic issues in self-mutilation. (1993) (341)
Why patients mutilate themselves. (1989) (303)
Self-mutilation and eating disorders. (1989) (258)
Impulsivity in self-mutilative behavior: psychometric and biological findings. (1997) (249)
The plight of chronic self-mutilators (2004) (195)
Self-injurious behaviors: Phenomenology and assessment. (2001) (169)
Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry (1987) (129)
Repetitive Self-Mutilation (1992) (120)
Varieties of Pathological Self-mutilation. (1990) (89)
Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry (1987) (61)
Overview: foundations of cultural psychiatry. (1978) (59)
Modern Christian healing of mental illness. (1982) (38)
Screening for alcoholism among college students. (1977) (38)
Salish Indian Mental Health and Culture Change: Psychohygienic and Therapeutic Aspects of the Guardian Spirit Ceremonial (1977) (37)
The Michigan alcoholism screening test. Application in a general military hospital. (1974) (37)
Cultures in Collision (1978) (28)
A cultural understanding of nonsuicidal self-injury. (2009) (28)
Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide (2007) (28)
The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (2000) (27)
Abstracts and Reviews : 1. General and Theoretical Issues (1989) (27)
Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature (1993) (27)
Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion, 2nd ed. (2002) (26)
Self-injurious Behavior in College Students (2006) (23)
Group therapy with schizophrenic patients. (1970) (20)
Social networks of alcoholics: some early findings. (1984) (19)
An Ordinary Man (2006) (18)
Chemotherapy of delirium tremens: a survey of physicians' preferences. (1974) (13)
Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy (2000) (13)
Hypoglycemia: an overview. (1978) (12)
Suicide gestures and self-mutilation. (1989) (12)
Brief reactive psychosis in a deaf man. (1984) (10)
Psychiatry Around the Globe: A Transcultural View, 2nd ed (1990) (10)
Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture (1992) (9)
Anthropological and cross-cultural themes in mental health : an annotated bibliography, 1925-1974 (1978) (9)
Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru (1990) (9)
Impulsivity in self-mutilative behavior (1997) (8)
Mariette in Ecstasy (1993) (8)
Screening for Drug Abuse among College Students: Modification of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (1978) (8)
The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method (1984) (8)
Bibliotherapy: a critique of the literature. (1966) (7)
Cultural Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry: GAP Report 145 (2002) (7)
Self-injurious behaviors in a college population. Commentary (2006) (6)
PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book (2003) (6)
Deliberate insulin underdosing and omission should be included in DSM-V criteria for bulimia nervosa. (2010) (6)
Cure, Care, or Control: Alcoholism Treatment in Sixteen Countries (1993) (6)
The Ethno-cultural Factor in Mental Health (1979) (6)
Arranging for air transportation of the mentally ill. (1970) (5)
Literature on sun gazing. (1991) (5)
Themes in Cultural Psychiatry: An Annotated Bibliography 1975-1980 (1982) (5)
Culture and Psychotherapy (1978) (4)
Recurrent LSD experience (flashbacks) triggered by marihuana. (1969) (4)
What do we know about affective disorders? (1986) (3)
Hitler's encephalitis? (1981) (3)
The American Experience With Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives (1987) (3)
Treatment of patients with self-injurious behavior. (1990) (3)
Lifetime prevalence of self-injurious behaviour among US college students is 17% (2007) (3)
Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy (1985) (2)
Mental Health and the Environment (1989) (2)
Consultation: what settings? (1977) (2)
Failure to diagnose alcoholism and drug abuse. (1979) (2)
The Use and Abuse of Medicine (1983) (1)
A Sociodynamic Model of Consultation (1973) (1)
Understanding the meaning of a symptom. (1987) (1)
Self-injurious behavior (2008) (1)
Spirituality, Ethics, and Relationships in Adulthood: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations (2001) (1)
Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician (1996) (1)
Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates in chronic, mentally ill out-patients. (1973) (1)
Mental health paraprofessionals: "indigenous" and middle class. (1974) (1)
The treatment of delirium tremens: controversy in the literature. (1974) (1)
Community Psychiatry Training (1991) (1)
Psychiatric Care of Migrants: A Clinical Guide (1991) (1)
Diversity in Psychotherapy: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (1995) (1)
Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment (1979) (0)
Depersonalization Episodes in Self-Mutilation (2006) (0)
I'm Ugly and Disgusting: Do I Look Okay? (2005) (0)
Promethazine-chlorpromazine combination in the treatment of unmanageable psychotic patients. (1969) (0)
Dr. Favazza and Ms. Oman Reply (1978) (0)
Fluoxetine (Prozac): a profile and clinical recommendations. (1991) (0)
The Chemically Dependent: Phases of Treatment and Recovery (1994) (0)
Visión panorámica: fundamentos de la psiquiatría cultural (1979) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY by J. L. Cox (ed.). Becken ham (Kent): Croom Helm Ltd., 1986. L-29.50. 321 pp (1987) (0)
Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry: The Bible: Relevant Issues for Clinicians (2009) (0)
Has Hysteria Decreased (1979) (0)
On Human Nature (1989) (0)
I’m Your Father, Boy: A Family Memoir of Barbados (2005) (0)
Shifts of reading pattern as a diagnostic tool in psychiatric patients. (1967) (0)
CULTURAL MEANING OF SELF-MUTILATION (1994) (0)
Abstracts & Reviews : 1. General and Theoretical (1994) (0)
Psychiatry 1982: The American Psychiatric Association Annual Review (1983) (0)
Book Review: Hilary Evans & Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior. San Antonio, TX: Anomalist Books, 2009. 784 pp. US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 1933665254 (2011) (0)
Phentolamine tests and catecholamine levels in normotensive CVA patients. (1974) (0)
Psychiatrists on Psychiatry (1984) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : 5 North America (1983) (0)
Psychiatric epidemiology: the university paradigm. (1976) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : THE INCORRUPTIBLE FLESH: BODILY MUTATION AND MORTIFICATION IN AND by PIERO CAMPORESI. New York: Cambridge University Press (1988) 286 pages, $44.50 (1989) (0)
Wine in medicine. (1968) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY by ALBERT GAW. Bristol: John Wright and Sons, 1982. 366 pages, $35.00 (1983) (0)
Silent Boundaries: Cultural Constraints on Sickness and Diagnosis of Iranians in Israel (1988) (0)
Prayers and Healing in the Christian Tradition (2006) (0)
Guide for mental health workers (1970) (0)
Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics. (2007) (0)
ASpects of Community Psychiatry: Review and Preview (1980) (0)
Outpatient treatment of the chronically ill. (1975) (0)
Race and Culture in Psychiatry (1990) (0)
Advances In Psychosomatic Medicine: Consultation-Liaison Throughout the World, Vol. 11 (1985) (0)
Book Review: S. Giora Shoham, The Myth of Tantalus: A Scaffolding for an Ontological Personality Theory. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. 323pp. Paper: $32.50 (US), ISBN 1903900433 (2010) (0)
Clinical Guidelines in Cross-Cultural Mental Health (1990) (0)
Abstracts & Reviews : Religion and Mental Health edited by John F. Schumaker. 1992. New York: Oxford UP. Cloth: $63, ISBN 2-19-506955-4,320 pages (1995) (0)
Working With Dr. Schweitzer (1992) (0)

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