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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. In 2023 there was little change in most countries average scores, but 35.8% Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

Even more concerning is the potential for this trend to be exported to non-Western cultures, as has happened with the diagnostic model under the much-criticised Movement for Global Mental Health. Mad World: the politics of mental health. Morgan, A (2023) Power, Threat, Meaning Framework: A Philosophical Critique.