Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

Both can also be found in one form or another in many ancient spiritual practices but are invariably lacking or not present at all in the biomedical approach to mental health. A Mad Priest I joined a peer self-help organisation called Grow. Then came a significant turnaround.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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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Legal Self-awareness Global mental health Hospitality 145

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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Global mental health Self-awareness Pharmaceuticals Hospitality 52

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. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous.

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