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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.

Treatment change of somatic symptoms and cultural syndromes among Cambodian refugees with PTSD.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Kredlow MA, Bui E, Pollack MH, Hofmann SG.
Depress Anxiety
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Multicultural challenges in the delivery of anxiety treatment.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE.
Depress Anxiety
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Loving-kindness and compassion meditation: potential for psychological interventions.
Authors: Authors: Hofmann SG, Grossman P, Hinton DE.
Clin Psychol Rev
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Anger regulation in traumatized Cambodian refugees: the perspectives of Buddhist monks.
Authors: Authors: Nickerson A, Hinton DE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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The cross-cultural validity of posttraumatic stress disorder: implications for DSM-5.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Lewis-Fernández R.
Depress Anxiety
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Agoraphobia, infinite space, and epistemic rupture: Europe at the end of the 19th century.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D.
J Anal Psychol
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Worry, worry attacks, and PTSD among Cambodian refugees: a path analysis investigation.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Nickerson A, Bryant RA.
Soc Sci Med
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Culturally adapted CBT (CA-CBT) for Latino women with treatment-resistant PTSD: a pilot study comparing CA-CBT to applied muscle relaxation.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hofmann SG, Rivera E, Otto MW, Pollack MH.
Behav Res Ther
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Cross-cultural variations in the prevalence and presentation of anxiety disorders.
Authors: Authors: Marques L, Robinaugh DJ, LeBlanc NJ, Hinton D.
Expert Rev Neurother
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Cultural aspects in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.
Authors: Authors: Hofmann SG, Anu Asnaani MA, Hinton DE.
Depress Anxiety
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