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Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

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If you dont like that word, medical gaslighting refers to how the medical profession uses tactics to create doubt about the service users reality. Ayurdhi Dhar: I see the same thing with the global mental health movement. Ayurdhi Dhar: Can you speak a little bit about thatthe medical gaslighting part? What is it?

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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. 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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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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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. For a more thorough account of Chapman’s book and its claims, we refer readers to the review.

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Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated

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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?