Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift Allan Leventhal, author of Grifting Depression: Psychiatrys Failure as a Medical Science, writes that Ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. South African allocates only 5% of its annual health budget to mental health, placing it at the bottom of international benchmarks of government spend on psychological well-being.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. Mental health is not just a medical matter.

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