Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst.
Department of Psychiatry News
JUNE 12, 2025
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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.” The 2021 WHO report echoed that sentiment.
Department of Psychiatry News
JUNE 24, 2025
Schools encouraged to be part of major wellbeing survey for 9-18 year olds British and Japanese young people make mental health recommendations for public health emergencies BMI, blood pressure and physical activity levels in childhood linked to brain differences Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study Shaping the (..)
Department of Psychiatry News
JUNE 19, 2025
Gender inequality linked to brain structure Moderate Drinking Linked to Brain Iron and Cognitive Decline First of its kind in UK - Innovative New Brain Health Centre First in Europe to acquire latest MEG Technology from MEGIN © 2025 Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX Freedom of Information Privacy Notice Copyright Statement (..)
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. Joey experienced akathisia from drugs prescribed for anxiety and he sadly died on January 14th 2024. Carly tells that Joey was on almost thirty different medications between 2015 and 2024. No one could tell him what it was.
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. Mad World: the politics of mental health. London: Pluto Press. Capitalist Realism. Ropley: Zero Books. Johnson, M.
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