Tue.Dec 19, 2023

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in Mexico. This article comprises a conversation between Mad in Mexico’s Luis Gerardo Arroyo Lynn and Tina Minkowitz, a lawyer specializing in international human rights involved in the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Luis Arroyo: Thank you again, Tina, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you.

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Season’s Greetings 2023 from the President

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

It is not easy to write this seasonal message given the situation in which our world finds itself: crises on all continents, terrorist attacks, armed conflicts and wars, societies split by polarising views, houses washed away, and forests burning. According to the World Health Organization, War, armed conflict and other man-made or natural disasters cause profound distress and can in some cases ignite or inflame existing mental health conditions.