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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.

Somatic-focused therapy for traumatized refugees: Treating posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid neck-focused panic attacks among cambodian refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Chhean D, Safren SA, Pollack MH.
Psychotherapy (Chic)
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Rates of isolated sleep paralysis in outpatients with anxiety disorders.
Authors: Authors: Otto MW, Simon NM, Powers M, Hinton D, Zalta AK, Pollack MH.
J Anxiety Disord
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Anxiety sensitivity among Cambodian refugees with panic disorder: A factor analytic investigation.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Safren SA, Pollack MH, McNally RJ.
J Anxiety Disord
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Orthostatically induced panic attacks among Vietnamese refugees: associated psychopathology, flashbacks, and catastrophic cognitions.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hinton L, Tran M, Nguyen L, Hsia C, Pollack MH.
Depress Anxiety
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Neck-focused panic attacks among Cambodian refugees; a logistic and linear regression analysis.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Chhean D, Pich V, Um K, Fama JM, Pollack MH.
J Anxiety Disord
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A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavior therapy for Cambodian refugees with treatment-resistant PTSD and panic attacks: a cross-over design.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Chhean D, Pich V, Safren SA, Hofmann SG, Pollack MH.
J Trauma Stress
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Anxiety sensitivity in traumatized Cambodian refugees: a discriminant function and factor analytic investigation.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Safren SA, Pollack MH, McNally RJ.
Behav Res Ther
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Weak kidney and panic attacks in a traumatized Vietnamese male.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Nguyen L, Tran M, Quinn S.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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'The ghost pushes you down': sleep paralysis-type panic attacks in a Khmer refugee population.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Chhean D, Pollack MH.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Sleep paralysis among Cambodian refugees: association with PTSD diagnosis and severity.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Chhean D, Pollack MH, McNally RJ.
Depress Anxiety
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