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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

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This in turn has a significant effect on the way we respond to life’s events. Unfortunately Grow had also come to the attention of the psychiatric fraternity who were less than impressed with the idea that groups of people with serious mental health problems could help each other achieve results that they couldn’t.

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

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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

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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.