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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.

A cross-ethnic comparison of lifetime prevalence rates of anxiety disorders.
Authors: Authors: Asnaani A, Richey JA, Dimaite R, Hinton DE, Hofmann SG.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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Khyâl attacks: a key idiom of distress among traumatized cambodia refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Marques L, Nickerson A, Pollack MH.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Idioms of distress among trauma survivors: subtypes and clinical utility.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Lewis-Fernández R.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Panic disorder: a review of DSM-IV panic disorder and proposals for DSM-V.
Authors: Authors: Craske MG, Kircanski K, Epstein A, Wittchen HU, Pine DS, Lewis-Fernández R, Hinton D.
Depress Anxiety
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Culture and the anxiety disorders: recommendations for DSM-V.
Authors: Authors: Lewis-Fernández R, Hinton DE, Laria AJ, Patterson EH, Hofmann SG, Craske MG, Stein DJ, Asnaani A, Liao B.
Depress Anxiety
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Anger, PTSD, and the nuclear family: a study of Cambodian refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Rasmussen A, Nou L, Pollack MH, Good MJ.
Soc Sci Med
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Introduction to the special section: Nightmares of trauma victims--cross-cultural perspectives.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Nightmares among Cambodian refugees: the breaching of concentric ontological security.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hinton AL, Pich V, Loeum JR, Pollack MH.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Mechanisms of efficacy of CBT for Cambodian refugees with PTSD: improvement in emotion regulation and orthostatic blood pressure response.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hofmann SG, Pollack MH, Otto MW.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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The assessment of the phenomenology of sleep paralysis: the Unusual Sleep Experiences Questionnaire (USEQ).
Authors: Authors: Paradis C, Friedman S, Hinton DE, McNally RJ, Solomon LZ, Lyons KA.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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