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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

Another big surprise was that many mental health professionals claim to be strongly opposed to the existing biomedical approach but most are reluctant to take any sort of public stand against it.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Although in-person attendance isstrictlylimited,you can join via live stream. Find more details and registration information here. pm (CET) It is also possible to join online via Zoom Event programme can be accessed here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

I was looking at the global mental health movement coming in and erasing these diverse ways of being human, Dhar explains. Ayurdhi Dhar at a mental health conference in India This issue is exactly what Dhar aims to address through Mad in South Asia (MISA). Farmers in Indi are killing themselves, says Dhar.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MARCH 13, 2024

This competition not only serves as a platform for aspiring medical professionals to showcase their talents but also highlights the WPA's commitment to addressing global mental health challenges through collaboration with the United Nations. The WPA President, Prof.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ayurdhi Dhar: I see the same thing with the global mental health movement. At a recent conference that was all about public health, I asked them, “Youve been talking about structural determinants like poverty, discrimination, violence, and trauma creating mental health issues in the global south.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. The most important findings come from global mental health studies in countries like India. He discusses the often-overlooked narrative of patient experiences, critiques the mechanistic approaches that dominate U.S.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

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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Mad in America

MARCH 16, 2024

For my MSc in Global Mental Health and Society, my dissertation attempted to explore human-nature relationships by studying urban greenspace at the intersection of land management, public healthcare, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

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. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health. Some, such as Patel, gave their talks virtually. What was the treatment?

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