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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

Mad in America

T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”

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Mad In South Asia

Mad in America

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.