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

Mad in America

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. The conference was rife with discussions on stigma of mental illness, which is apparently much worse in the Global South (I sensed a hint of racism here).