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Devon Emerson Hinton, M.D.

Devon E. Hinton, M.D, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and psychiatrist, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

He and his team have developed a manualized treatment that can be culturally adapted for the treatment of traumatized refugees, a treatment that has been shown to be effective for multiple groups including Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees and Spanish-speaking populations.

He is fluent in several languages including Cambodian and Spanish. He was a member of the DSM-V Cultural Study Group and an advisor to the Anxiety, OC, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group of DSM–V (American Psychiatric Association). He is the author of over a 130 articles and over 30 chapters, and is the co-editor of four volumes: Culture and Panic Disorder (Stanford University Press), 2009; Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery (Cambridge University Press), 2015; Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective (University of Penn Press), 2016; and The DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation (American Psychiatric Press). 2016.

Affliate:

Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change

 Dr. Devon Hinton has researched culturally specific presentations of somatic symptoms, panic attacks, panic disorder, and PTSD among Southeast Asian populations, particularly Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees, and among Latino populations.

GAP-REACH: a checklist to assess comprehensive reporting of race, ethnicity, and culture in psychiatric publications.
Authors: Authors: Lewis-Fernández R, Raggio GA, Gorritz M, Duan N, Marcus S, Cabassa LJ, Humensky J, Becker AE, Alarcón RD, Oquendo MA, Hansen H, Like RC, Weiss M, Desai PN, Jacobsen FM, Foulks EF, Primm A, Lu F, Kopelowicz A, Hinton L, Hinton DE.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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Local responses to trauma: symptom, affect, and healing.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Kirmayer LJ.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Normal grief and complicated bereavement among traumatized Cambodian refugees: cultural context and the central role of dreams of the dead.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Peou S, Joshi S, Nickerson A, Simon NM.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Rates and characteristics of sleep paralysis in the general population of Denmark and Egypt.
Authors: Authors: Jalal B, Hinton DE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Dreams of the dead among Cambodian refugees: frequency, phenomenology, and relationship to complicated grief and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Field NP, Nickerson A, Bryant RA, Simon N.
Death Stud
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Loving-kindness in the treatment of traumatized refugees and minority groups: a typology of mindfulness and the nodal network model of affect and affect regulation.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Ojserkis RA, Jalal B, Peou S, Hofmann SG.
J Clin Psychol
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Childhood trauma, personality disorders symptoms and current major depressive disorder in Togo.
Authors: Authors: Kounou KB, Bui E, Dassa KS, Hinton D, Fischer L, Djassoa G, Birmes P, Schmitt L.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
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The relationship of PTSD to key somatic complaints and cultural syndromes among Cambodian refugees attending a psychiatric clinic: the Cambodian Somatic Symptom and Syndrome Inventory (CSSI).
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Kredlow MA, Pich V, Bui E, Hofmann SG.
Transcult Psychiatry
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PTSD and key somatic complaints and cultural syndromes among rural Cambodians: the results of a needs assessment survey.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hinton AL, Eng KT, Choung S.
Med Anthropol Q
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Adapting CBT for traumatized refugees and ethnic minority patients: examples from culturally adapted CBT (CA-CBT).
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Rivera EI, Hofmann SG, Barlow DH, Otto MW.
Transcult Psychiatry
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