| Why do so many Latina teens attempt suicide? A conceptual model for research LH Zayas, RJ Lester, LJ Cabassa, LR Fortuna American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 75 (2), 275-287, 2005 | 382 | 2005 |
| Jesus in our wombs: Embodying modernity in a Mexican convent RJ Lester Univ of California Press, 2005 | 264 | 2005 |
| “It’s like being in a labyrinth:” Hispanic immigrants’ perceptions of depression and attitudes toward treatments LJ Cabassa, R Lester, LH Zayas Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 9, 1-16, 2007 | 254 | 2007 |
| The (dis) embodied self in anorexia nervosa RJ Lester Social Science & Medicine 44 (4), 479-489, 1997 | 193 | 1997 |
| Back from the edge of existence: A critical anthropology of trauma R Lester Transcultural psychiatry 50 (5), 753-762, 2013 | 97 | 2013 |
| Critical therapeutics: Cultural politics and clinical reality in two eating disorder treatment centers RJ Lester Medical anthropology quarterly 21 (4), 369-387, 2007 | 92 | 2007 |
| Brokering authenticity: Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of care in an American eating disorder clinic RJ Lester Current Anthropology 50 (3), 281-302, 2009 | 86 | 2009 |
| Famished: Eating disorders and failed care in America RJ Lester University of California Press, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Embodied voices: women's food asceticism and the negotiation of identity RJ Lester Ethos 23 (2), 187-222, 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| Commentary: Eating disorders and the problem of" culture" in acculturation R Lester Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28 (4), 607, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| Lessons from the borderline: Anthropology, psychiatry, and the risks of being human RJ Lester Feminism & Psychology 23 (1), 70-77, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Self‐governance, psychotherapy, and the subject of managed care: Internal Family Systems therapy and the multiple self in a US eating‐disorders treatment center RJ Lester American Ethnologist 44 (1), 23-35, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing AP Johnson, RJ Lester American Journal of Human Biology 34, e23664, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
| Health as moral failing: Medication restriction among women with eating disorders R Lester Anthropology & medicine 21 (2), 241-250, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| The immediacy of eternity: time and transformation in a Roman Catholic convent RJ Lester Religion 33 (3), 201-219, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| How do I code for black fingernail polish? Finding the missing adolescent in managed mental health care RJ Lester Ethos 39 (4), 481-496, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Ground zero: Ontology, recognition, and the elusiveness of care in American eating disorders treatment RJ Lester Transcultural Psychiatry 55 (4), 516-533, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Examining the etiology and treatment of mental illness among vodou priests in northern Haiti M Galvin, G Michel, E Manguira, E Pierre, C Lesorogol, JF Trani, R Lester, ... Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 47 (3), 647-668, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| Reflections on the anthropology of public psychiatry: The potential and limitations of transdisciplinary work N Myers, R Lester, K Hopper Transcultural Psychiatry 53 (4), 419-426, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Self-mutilation and excoriation RJ Lester Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance 2, 724-729, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
