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Mad in Portugal

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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.

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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

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In many peripheral urban areas and rural regions, the only available contact with mental health support comes through brief psychiatric consultations, where dialogue is replaced by prescriptions. This asymmetry between psychiatry and psychology is further exacerbated by enduring forms of coloniality in global mental health systems.

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

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This is connected with what you wrote, which is that psychiatric concepts and categories bear the traces of their colonial origins and reflect current structural inequities maintained by constructs of race and ethnicity.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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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.