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Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D.


Department of Human Ecology
Cook Office Building, Cook College
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
55 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
Phone: (732) 932-9153 ext. 312
FAX: (732) 932-6667
guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu
gortch@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Professor of Psychology, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Anthropologist Consultant, Center for Evaluation & Sociomedical Research, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Anthropologist Consultant, Center for Hispanic Mental Health Research, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York, New York
  • Ethnographic Consultant, New York State Psychiatric University, Division of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Hispanic Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York, New York
  • Anthropologist Consultant, National Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Mental Health Research, Aurora, CO

Areas of Research Interest:

Medical Anthropology, Research Methodology, Applied Anthropology, Latino Health Issues, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Epidemiology of Mental Disorders, Public Health, Language and Culture, Cultural Psychopathology, Cultural Competence, Comparative Phenomenology.

Selected Publications:

Guarnaccia, P.J., R. Lewis-Fernandez and M. Rivera. Revise and resubmit. Towards a Puerto Rican Popular Nosology: Nervios and Ataques de Nervios. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.

Guarnaccia, P.J. 2001. Introduction: The Contributions of Medical Anthropology to Anthropology and Beyond. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15:423-427.

Guarnaccia, P.J. 2001. Border Crossing Art: Drawings by Detainees in INS Facilities. Journal of Immigrant Health 3:131-132.

Guarnaccia, P.J. 2000. Multicultural Families’ Experiences of Caregiving. The Journal of NAMI California. 11(2): 54-56.

Guarnaccia, P.J. and L. H. Rogler. 1999. Research on Culture Bound Syndromes. American Journal of Psychiatry 156:1322-1327.

Professional Affiliations:

American Anthropological Association
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
National Institute of Mental Health- National Advisory Mental Health Council’s Behavioral Sciences Workgroup
New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services Multicultural Services Advisory Committee
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
National Institute of Mental Health-Group on Culture and Diagnosis

 

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