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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. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital.
Mad in America
JANUARY 17, 2025
Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Despite my best efforts, however, I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals for short stays on many occasions over the next fourteen years.
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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.
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.
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.
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