Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. I didn’t realize that others were actively fighting against what they call the mental health system or psychiatry. The mental health system is deeply ingrained in our culture.
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Child Mind Intitute
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.
Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2024
As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals.
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