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Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

Mad in America

Things like family stress, domestic violence, racism, ethnocentrismeven the global wars we are seeing right nowaffect peoples mental health. Recently, my therapist said her clients were crying about things going on in the world, not about their jobs, but about national events. Theres a disconnect. She never wrote back.

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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. This appears to be a real, although currently not widespread, possibility, as discussed here.

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Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated

Mad in America

The theme of the conference was public mental health. It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals.