Mad in America
MAY 18, 2025
One group took a left-wing approach, limiting their efforts to improving existing psychiatric hospitals while viewing alternative solutions as attempts to privatize the mental health sector. In addition, he was inspired by Mad in America founder Robert Whitakers books and the impact he saw Mad in America having in the United States.
Psychiatric Times
JULY 22, 2025
Psychiatric leadership in the 21st century: navigating transformative roles in global mental health. A psychiatrist’s journey in social media advocacy and clinical research. Psychiatric Times. June 25, 2024. Alag P, Wakefield SM. Psychiatric Times. January 10, 2025. Kolovich G. Medical Economics. March 18, 2024.
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Mad in America
AUGUST 13, 2025
I’d asked her something about alternatives to global mental health or what kind of alternative approaches we could use. I would encourage people to read a book, maybe not to get that information from TikTok, not to get that information from Instagram or Facebook or whatever it is that they’re using.
Department of Psychiatry News
JUNE 12, 2025
Our support aims to advance global mental health by promoting evidence-based mindfulness approaches that empower individuals to prioritise wellbeing and live healthier, more resilient lives." Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.
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. Where do those thoughts come from?
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. This appears to be a real, although currently not widespread, possibility, as discussed here.
Mad in America
MAY 21, 2025
Drawing on 4E cognitive science, he proposes that metaphors are not simply rhetorical tools but embodied and enacted processes embedded in local social worlds. These shape how people experience distress and how clinicians make sense of it.
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