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Samuel B. Thielman

Samuel B. Thielman

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
samuel.thielman@duke.edu
P.O. Box 786, Montreat, NC 28757

Selected Publications

Treating Evangelical Christians: Challenges and Opportunities.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · October 1, 2024 Evangelical Christians constitute one-quarter of the U.S. population and can present challenges to mental health treatment, such as beliefs that psychiatric problems result from personal sin and that secular professionals pose a threat to their faith. Unde ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychosocial Effects on US Government Personnel of Exposure to the 1998 Terrorist Attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi.

Journal Article Psychiatry · 2021 Objective: The mental health effects of major terrorist attacks on diplomatic government personnel have not been well studied. This study examined the psychiatric and psychosocial effects of the 1998 terrorist bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, o ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Fraught History of Psychiatry and Christianity

Chapter · January 1, 2021 This chapter draws from a wide range of primary and secondary source literature to illustrate how Christians, physicians and otherwise, have understood the spiritual dimension of “madness.” Beginning with the New Testament and extending to the present day, ... Full text Cite

A Study of Selected Ethnic Affiliations in the Development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Psychopathology After a Terrorist Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya.

Journal Article Disaster Med Public Health Prep · June 2018 OBJECTIVES: Despite the frequency of disasters in Africa, almost nothing is known about ethnic affiliations in relation to psychopathology after such incidents. This study examined the mental health outcomes of members of 7 major ethnic groups exposed to t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ethical considerations for mental health providers responding to religious and spiritual issues in disasters and emergencies.

Journal Article Spirituality in Clinical Practice · September 1, 2016 Spiritual issues arise in the course of disaster response, for both survivors and responders. This article describes ethical considerations that are of particular concern to mental health personnel. It addresses dual agency considerations, the ethical appl ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings among rescue workers and bombing survivors in Nairobi and rescue workers in Oklahoma City.

Journal Article Ann Clin Psychiatry · February 2016 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: To examine the prevalence of psychopathology in 52 male rescue workers responding to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, comparing them with 176 male rescue workers responding to the 1995 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing and with 1 ... Link to item Cite

Travel and Mental Health

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The course of postdisaster psychiatric disorders in directly exposed civilians after the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya: a follow-up study.

Journal Article Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · February 2013 PURPOSE: While disasters are common in Africa, disaster studies in Africa are underrepresented in the published literature. This study prospectively examined the longitudinal course of psychopathology, coping, and functioning among 128 directly exposed Ken ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious and Spiritual Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Considerations for the DSM-V

Chapter · February 27, 2012 Featured Publication This book aims to inform and explain, as well as to be thought provoking and even controversial. ... Cite

Religion and Spirituality in the Description of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication The symposium was an attempt to expand the current DSM text on "Specific Culture, Age, and Gender Features"; and "Differential Diagnosis" to include the impact of religious/spiritual factors on phenomenology, differential diagnosis, course, ... ... Cite

Spirituality and the care of madness: Historical considerations

Chapter · January 1, 2009 Featured Publication SUMMARY Spiritual and religious issues are sometimes neglected or misrepresented in histories of psychiatry. This chapter outlines a historical approach to understanding how spiritual and religious ideas are expressed in medical and religious writings deal ... Full text Cite

The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson

Book Review The New England journal of medicine · 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Neutrality, autonomy and mental health: a closer look.

Journal Article Bull Menninger Clin · 2007 Featured Publication Clinicians have traditionally viewed neutrality as the primary means of promoting patient autonomy, and by extension mental health. But patients also require expert direction, want other values incorporated into their treatment, and benefit from collaborat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of post-disaster psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Oklahoma City.

Journal Article Br J Psychiatry · June 2005 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: African disaster-affected populations are poorly represented in disaster mental health literature. AIMS: To compare systematically assessed mental health in populations directly exposed to terrorist bombing attacks on two continents, North Amer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Observations on the impact on kenyans of the august 7, 1998 bombing of the united states embassy in nairobi

Journal Article Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma · April 4, 2005 Featured Publication The August 7, 1998 bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi affected a large number of people, both Kenyan and American. The bombing led to a large-scale response from the Kenyan mental health community and to collaboration between American and Kenyan re ... Full text Cite

Observations on the impact on kenyans of the august 7, 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi

Chapter · January 1, 2005 The August 7, 1998 bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi affected a large number of people, both Kenyan and American. The bombing led to a large-scale response from the Kenyan mental health community and to collaboration between American and Kenyan re ... Cite

Worldview in Global Perspective

Chapter · 2004 Although the literature on worldview in psychiatry is relatively sparse, there is a longstanding, natural connection between anthropology and psychiatry. ... Cite

Psychiatric consequences of the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya

Journal Article PSYCHIATRIC ANNALS · 2004 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Religious Insanity

Chapter · January 2000 Cite

The antidepressant era.

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES · October 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

The Antidepressant Era by David Healy

Book Review Journal of the History of Medicine Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences · 1999 Cite

Reflections on the Role of Religion in the History of Psychiatry

Chapter · September 18, 1998 The Handbook of Religion and Mental Health is a useful resource for mental health professionals, religious professionals, and counselors. ... Cite

Religious content in the DSM-III-R glossary of technical terms.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · December 1993 The authors reviewed Appendix C of DSM-III-R, Glossary of Technical Terms, for its references to religion. Religion was referred to more frequently in this glossary than it is in psychiatric research. The authors conclude that although the Glossary uses re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between dimensions of religious commitment and mental health reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry: 1978-1989.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · April 1992 The authors assessed all measures of religious commitment (N = 139) reported in research studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry in 1978 through 1989 (N less than 35). For nearly two-thirds of the measures ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Georgia Centenarian Study.

Journal Article Int J Aging Hum Dev · 1992 Full text Link to item Cite

Geriatric Suicidal Behavior: Assessment and Treatment

Chapter · 1990 This book brings together the research studies and clinical experience of more than 40 internationally recognized contributors who paint an insightful and thought-provoking portrait of the suicidal patient at various stages of the life span ... ... Cite

Community management of mental disorders in antebellum America.

Journal Article J Hist Med Allied Sci · July 1989 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

General aspects of the history of psychiatry

Journal Article Current Opinion in Psychiatry · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute

Journal Article American Journal of Psychiatry · March 1987 Full text Cite

Hypomania following withdrawal of trazodone.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · November 1986 Full text Link to item Cite

Julia Rush's diary: coping with loss in the early nineteenth century.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · September 1986 Featured Publication Julia Rush (1759-1848), wife of Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), recorded her thoughts over a 33-year period in an unpublished devotional journal. Many of the entries relate to her experience of the loss of Benjamin Rush. Although the diary is inadequate as a so ... Full text Link to item Cite

RUSH,JULIA DIARY - COPING WITH LOSS IN THE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY

Journal Article AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY · September 1, 1986 Link to item Cite

Psychiatry and social values: the American Psychiatric Association and immigration restriction, 1880-1930.

Journal Article Psychiatry · November 1985 Featured Publication From time to time during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the issue of immigration came before the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Members of the APA who publicly discussed the problem of immigration often addressed it in ways that emphasize ... Full text Link to item Cite

madness and medicine

Thesis Dissertation Cite

The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud, ed. R. Andrew Paskauskas

Book Review The New England journal of medicine Cite

Review of Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985 by Janet Colaizzi

Book Review Georgia HIstorical Quarterly Cite

Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 5th Edition

Book Review The New England journal of medicine Cite

The Task of Medicine by Kerr L. White

Book Review The New England journal of medicine Cite

Help After High Stress Assignments

Other Foreign Service Journal Featured Publication Cite