Prof. Byron J. Good, Ph.D

Minat Penelitian

Budaya, Kesehatan Mental, Trauma Sosial, Subjektivitas Manusia, dan Penguatan Layanan Kesehatan Global.

Prof. Byron J. Good, B.D., Ph.D., adalah Profesor Antropologi Medis di Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard University, serta di Departemen Antropologi, Harvard University. Ia memperoleh gelar Ph.D. dalam antropologi dari University of Chicago. Sebagai antropolog medis, psikiatri, dan psikologis, Prof. Good memiliki minat jangka panjang pada bagaimana keragaman budaya membentuk manifestasi, pengalaman, serta respons terhadap gangguan mental serius di berbagai masyarakat seperti Indonesia, Iran, Turki, Amerika Serikat, dan Tiongkok.

Selama hampir lima dekade, Prof. Good telah melakukan berbagai penelitian dengan fokus utama pada studi tentang penyakit mental serius dan perawatan berbasis komunitas di berbagai wilayah termasuk Yogyakarta, serta pada lingkungan pascakonflik dan pascatsunami di Aceh Indonesia. Sejak 1996, ia juga aktif melakukan studi di Indonesia, khususnya melalui penelitian etnografi mengenai budaya Jawa dan kaitannya dengan kesehatan mental. Selain itu, ia mengembangkan riset kuantitatif dan etnografi terkait fase awal gangguan psikotik, studi longitudinal perjalanan psikosis akut, serta evaluasi efektivitas layanan kesehatan mental.

Jurnal

Good, B. J., & Good, M. J. D. (2025). Ethnography from Medical Elsewheres. Cult Med Psychiatry 49, 1035–1043. doi.org/10.1007/s11013-025-09922-7

Tyas, T. H., Good, M. D., Pratikno, B., Subandi, M. A., Marchira, C. R., & Good, B. J. (2024). Unlocking the mentally ill in Indonesia: An empirical study of the effectiveness of a “Bebas Pasung” program in Central Java. PloS one, 19(10), e0302190. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302190

Yusuf, N. R., Prasetyo, S., & Good, B. J. (2024). Early Detection of Risk Factor for Suicidal Ideation Among Senior High School Students in Jakarta: Updated Measurement. Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional, 19(4), 223-232. doi.org/10.21109/kesmas.v19i4.1089

Subandi, M. A., Nihayah, M., Marchira, C. R., Tyas, T., Marastuti, A., Pratiwi, R., Mediola, F., Herdiyanto, Y. K., Sari, O. K., Good, M. D., & Good, B. J. (2023). The principles of recovery-oriented mental health services: A review of the guidelines from five different countries for developing a protocol to be implemented in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. PloS one, 18(3), e0276802. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276802

Subandi, M. A., Praptomojati, A., Marchira, C. R., DelVecchio Good, M. J., & Good, B. J. (2021). Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia. Transcultural psychiatry, 58(1), 3–13. doi.org/10.1177/1363461520916290

Marastuti, A., Subandi, M. A., Retnowati, S., Marchira, C. R., Yuen, C. M., Good, B. J., & Good, M. D. (2020). Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Training Program for Community Health Workers in Indonesia. Community mental health journal, 56(7), 1248–1254. doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00579-7

Marchira, C. R., Supriyanto, I., Subandi, S., Good, M. J. D., & Good, B. J. (2019). Brief interactive psychoeducation for caregivers of patients with early phase psychosis in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Early intervention in psychiatry, 13(3), 469–476. doi.org/10.1111/eip.12506

Subandi, M. A., & Good, B. J. (2018). Shame as a cultural index of illness and recovery from psychotic illness in Java. Asian journal of psychiatry, 34, 33–37. doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2018.04.005

Marchira, C. R., Supriyanto, I., Subandi, Soewadi, & Good, B. J. (2016). The association between duration of untreated psychosis in first psychotic episode patients and help seeking behaviors in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. International journal of culture and mental health, 9(2), 120–126. doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2015.1103276

Good, B. J., DelVecchio Good, M. J., Abramowitz, S., Kleinman, A., & Panter-Brick, C. (2014). Medical humanitarianism: research insights in a changing field of practice. Social science & medicine (1982), 120, 311–316. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.027

Yang, L. H., Chen, F. P., Sia, K. J., Lam, J., Lam, K., Ngo, H., Lee, S., Kleinman, A., & Good, B. (2014). “What matters most:” a cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma. Social science & medicine (1982), 103, 84–93. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.009

Zhang, T. H., Chow, A., Wang, L. L., Yu, J. H., Dai, Y. F., Lu, X., Good, M. J., Good, B. J., & Xiao, Z. P. (2013). Childhood maltreatment profile in a clinical population in China: a further analysis with existing data of an epidemiologic survey. Comprehensive psychiatry, 54(7), 856–864. doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.03.014

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Buku

Good, B. J. (1993). Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811029

Editor 

Hinton, D. E., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (2016). Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Hinton, D. E., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (2009). Culture and panic disorder. Stanford University Press.
 
Good, M.-J. D., Hyde, S. T., Pinto, S., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (2008). Postcolonial disorders. University of California Press.
 

Biehl, J., Good, B. J., & Kleinman, A. (Eds.). (2007). Subjectivity: Ethnographic investigations. University of California Press.

Giarelli, G., Good, M.-J. D., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (2005). Clinical hermeneutics. Bologna.


Shweder, R. A., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (2004). Clifford Geertz by his colleagues. University of Chicago Press.

Desjarlais, R., Eisenberg, L., Good, B. J., & Kleinman, A. (1995). World mental health: Problems and priorities in low-income countries. Oxford University Press.

Good, M.-J. D., Brodwin, P., Good, B. J., & Kleinman, A. (Eds.). (1992). Pain as human experience: An anthropological perspective. University of California Press.

Kleinman, A., & Good, B. J. (Eds.). (1985). Culture and depression: Studies in the anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry of affect and disorder. University of California Press.

  • Ketua Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard University (2000–2006)
  • Presiden Society for Psychological Anthropology (2013–2015)
  • Editor-in-Chief jurnal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (1986–2004)
  • Direktur/Ko-Direktur/penggagas berbagai program pelatihan internasional, antara lain: Harvard NIMH Training Program in Cultural and Mental Health Services (1984–2008), Carnegie Fellowship Program yang melibatkan dokter dan ilmuwan sosial dari Kenya dan Tanzania (1990–1999), Freeman Fellowship Program untuk Asia Tenggara dan Timur (1996–2003), Fogarty International Center Training Program in International Mental Health (2000–2017), serta program kolaborasi riset USAID (2010–2016) yang melibatkan peneliti Indonesia diantaranya dari Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Gadjah Mada.
1. Lifetime Mentoring Award (2000)

Diberikan oleh Society for Medical Anthropology sebagai pengakuan atas kontribusinya dalam membimbing generasi peneliti di bidang antropologi medis.

2. Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)

Diberikan oleh Society for Psychological Anthropology atas pencapaian seumur hidupnya dalam pengembangan kajian antropologi psikologis.

1. Society for Psychological Anthropology
  • Presiden (2013–2015)
  • Organisasi ini merupakan bagian dari American Anthropological Association yang fokus pada kajian psikologi dalam konteks budaya.
2. Society for Medical Anthropology
  • Terlibat sebagai anggota aktif dan penerima penghargaan (Lifetime Mentoring Award).
  • Organisasi ini berfokus pada studi hubungan antara budaya, kesehatan, dan penyakit.