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Article Types

Original Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and two additional positive reviews are needed to pass into the publication stage, although if they agree, this may be done by the original reviewer. This must present original research not published elsewhere that uses mixed methods, social science methods, and/or archival research. We do not publish articles using solely quantitative methods. Please review other journal publications from the past few months to determine the best style and format for your paper so that it is a good fit for the journal. Please be sure to remove all identifiers from your paper draft prior to review.

Perspectives: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and two additional positive reviews are needed to pass into the publication stage, although if they agree, this may be done by the original reviewer. Please review other journal articles published under this heading to determine the best style and format for your paper so that it is a good fit for the journal. Please be sure to remove all identifiers from your paper draft prior to review.

Clinical Case Studies (CCS) are analyses of clinical cases that are relevant to scholarship in the fields of interest of the journal.   These analyses should make an original intervention into the clinical, ethnographic, and/or theoretical literature.  Clinical case studies should be no longer than 8,000 words max, plus footnotes and references.

Cultural Case Studies: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and two additional positive reviews are needed to pass into the publication stage, although if they agree, this may be done by the original reviewer. Please review other journal articles published under this heading to determine the best style and format for your paper so that it is a good fit for the journal. Please be sure to remove all identifiers from your paper draft prior to review.

Cultural Case Studies (CuCS) have paralleled the traditional Clinical Case Studies (CCS) that have appeared for some time in CMP. However, the Cultural Case Studies’ perspectives are from the “anthropological clinic” rather than the psychiatric. The focus of Cultural Case Studies is on cultural and psychocultural aspects of a case and its social/cultural context rather than specific, formal criteria of psychiatric evaluation. The elements of significance, thus, can vary from case to case.  These analyses should make an original intervention into the clinical, ethnographic, and/or theoretical literature.  Cultural case studies should be no longer than 8500 words in length, inclusive of footnotes and references.

Commentaries: 2-3,000 words max with references; not peer reviewed (but will receive editorial review), opinions expressed are the opinions of the authors not the journal.

Book Reviews: 2-3,000 words max with references; not peer reviewed (but will receive editorial review), opinions expressed are the opinions of the authors not the journal.