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Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article is being simultaneously published on Mad in America and on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. W hy do I do the work that I do? My experience was compliant.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. What do we mean by healing?