Byron Joseph Good

Byron Good, PhD, BD

Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member, HMS Center for Bioethics
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Byron Good, PhD, is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. He received his BD from Harvard Divinity School and PhD from the University of Chicago. Prof. Good is a medical and psychological anthropologist who studies culture, mental illness, and mental health services and has been working in Indonesia since 1996. He has contributed to the development of a program in bioethics and medical humanities in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and has been writing recently about hauntology and hauntological ethics. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

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The principles of recovery-oriented mental health services: A review of the guidelines from five different countries for developing a protocol to be implemented in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Authors: Authors: Subandi MA, Nihayah M, Marchira CR, Tyas T, Marastuti A, Pratiwi R, Mediola F, Herdiyanto YK, Sari OK, Good MD, Good BJ.
PLoS One
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Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia.
Authors: Authors: Subandi MA, Praptomojati A, Marchira CR, DelVecchio Good MJ, Good BJ.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Early psychosis in Indonesia: reflections on illness and treatment.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Marchira CR, Subandi MA, Mediola F, Tyas TH, Good MD.
Int Rev Psychiatry
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Brief interactive psychoeducation for caregivers of patients with early phase psychosis in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Authors: Authors: Marchira CR, Supriyanto I, Subandi S, Good MJD, Good BJ.
Early Interv Psychiatry
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Shame as a cultural index of illness and recovery from psychotic illness in Java.
Authors: Authors: Subandi MA, Good BJ.
Asian J Psychiatr
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The association between duration of untreated psychosis in first psychotic episode patients and help seeking behaviors in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Authors: Authors: Marchira CR, Supriyanto I, Good BJ.
Int J Cult Ment Health
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Medical humanitarianism: research insights in a changing field of practice.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, DelVecchio Good MJ, Abramowitz S, Kleinman A, Panter-Brick C.
Soc Sci Med
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"What matters most:" a cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma.
Authors: Authors: Yang LH, Chen FP, Sia KJ, Lam J, Lam K, Ngo H, Lee S, Kleinman A, Good B.
Soc Sci Med
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Childhood maltreatment profile in a clinical population in China: a further analysis with existing data of an epidemiologic survey.
Authors: Authors: Zhang TH, Chow A, Wang LL, Yu JH, Dai YF, Lu X, Good MJ, Good BJ, Xiao ZP.
Compr Psychiatry
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Prevalence of personality disorders using two diagnostic systems in psychiatric outpatients in Shanghai, China: a comparison of uni-axial and multi-axial formulation.
Authors: Authors: Zhang T, Wang L, Good MJ, Good BJ, Chow A, Dai Y, Yu J, Zhang H, Xiao Z.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
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