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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

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. Linda 1 is a 20-year-old Zimbabwean refugee living in South Africa. No, she says. Theres nobody there.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

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healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. the UK, and Canada into the Global South?