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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

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If you are the only doctor on duty in a public hospital with over a hundred patients to be seen in less than 3 hours, the time constraint is understandable. Public/Private Collusion Public hospitals are, in many ways, comparable to garbage dumps, while private practices could easily be mistaken for five-star hotels.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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He has helped pioneer integrative approaches that unite phenomenology and neuroscience, including a biopsychosocial model grounded in enactive and embodied cognition , as well as a person-centered, ecosocial framework for understanding suffering beyond reductive biological paradigms. It’s not the same everywhere else.

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Mad in Ireland

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Hough notes that, while Irelands mental health system has recently started using terms like biopsychosocial model, human rights, and trauma-informed, actual practices remain essentially the same as always. In Ireland, we’re very good at paying lip service to these things, she explains.