Arvid Kachurin
Arvid Kachurin is a psychological anthropologist and an incoming PhD student in anthropology at Stanford University. He holds an MA in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research examines the sociocultural dimensions of psychological distress, with a focus on the lived experience of Borderline Personality Disorder, including patterns of affective instability, functional impairment, and suicidality. His broader interests include psychiatric anthropology, personality disorders, and the aesthetic mediation of mental illness in clinical and popular discourse.
1 article contributed
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen Tran (University of California Press: 2023) In A Life of Worry, Allen L. Tran examines how anxiety in post-reform Vietnam is produced at the intersection of historical rupture, economic transformation, and relational obligations. Tran challenges psychiatric models that isolate anxiety as […]
