Douglas W Hollan

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., UC San Diego 1984

Class Websites

Office: 316B Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-3366
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Psychological and Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

Psychological and cultural anthropology; ethnopsychology; cross-cultural psychiatry; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania.

Selected Publications

1998 with R. I. Levy. Person-Centered Interviewing and Observation in Anthropology. In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. ed. H. R. Bernard. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

2000 Constructivist Models of Mind, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Development of Culture Theory. American Anthropologist 102:538-550.

2004 Self Systems, Cultural Idioms of Distress, and the Psycho-Bodily Consequences of Childhood Suffering. Transcultural Psychiatry 41:62-79.

2005 Dreaming in a Global World. In A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Eds. Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

2008 Being There: On the Imaginative Aspects of Understanding Others and Being Understoood. Ethos 36:475-489.

2008 Selfscapes of Well-Being in a Rural Indonesian Village. In Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective. eds. Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo. New York: Berghahn Books.

2009 The Influence of Culture on the Experience and Interpretation of Disturbing Dreams. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 33:313-322.

Awards

UCLA Luckman Distinghished Teaching Award (1995)

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