World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A Commitment to Global Mental Health This annual competition underscores the WPAs dedication to addressing global mental health challenges through collaboration with the United Nations and fostering the next generation of medical professionals committed to equity and inclusion.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Eliot Sorel, an extraordinary leader in global mental health, on 13th of October 2024, at the age of 84. Sorel was not only a pioneer in health systems performance and psychiatry but also a visionary whose dedication transformed the lives of countless individuals worldwide.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Danuta Wasserman As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on a year of resilience, collaboration, and renewed commitments to addressing global mental health challenges, guided by the EDIT principles -Equality, Development, Inclusivity, and Transcultural awareness. On behalf of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) President, Prof.

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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.

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Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 103

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 1, 2025

Well ask: What are the next frontiers for psychological science? Which paradigms need rethinking? Where can our methods and theories make the biggest difference?

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Although in-person attendance isstrictlylimited,you can join via live stream. Find more details and registration information here. pm (CET) It is also possible to join online via Zoom Event programme can be accessed here.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MARCH 13, 2024

This competition not only serves as a platform for aspiring medical professionals to showcase their talents but also highlights the WPA's commitment to addressing global mental health challenges through collaboration with the United Nations. The WPA President, Prof.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ayurdhi Dhar: I see the same thing with the global mental health movement. At a recent conference that was all about public health, I asked them, “Youve been talking about structural determinants like poverty, discrimination, violence, and trauma creating mental health issues in the global south.

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The Mental Elf

MAY 2, 2025

Izah Bowes considers a cross-sectional study exploring urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South: Trinidad, India and Nigeria. The post City limits: untreated psychosis in the Global South appeared first on National Elf Service.

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The Mental Elf

MARCH 17, 2025

Clarissa Giebel summarises a recent review global cohort studies, which asks the question - is dementia on the downturn, and are the risks the same in high-income or low to middle income countries? The post Are dementia prevalence and incidence declining? Findings from a review of cohort studies appeared first on National Elf Service.

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The Mental Elf

APRIL 29, 2025

Demetra Christodoulou reviews a new randomised controlled trial from Pakistan testing Learning Through Play Plus Dads: a group parenting programme designed to support fathers with postnatal depression. The post The other side of postnatal depression: what about Dads? appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. The most important findings come from global mental health studies in countries like India. He discusses the often-overlooked narrative of patient experiences, critiques the mechanistic approaches that dominate U.S.

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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.”

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Global Study Questions Antidepressant Use, Points to Social Determinants of Mental Health In February, Liam Gehrig Bach wrote about a new cross-national study which questions the effectiveness of antidepressants, highlighting the crucial role of social and economic factors in addressing global mental health challenges.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

I was looking at the global mental health movement coming in and erasing these diverse ways of being human, Dhar explains. Ayurdhi Dhar at a mental health conference in India This issue is exactly what Dhar aims to address through Mad in South Asia (MISA). Farmers in Indi are killing themselves, says Dhar.

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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

L aurence Kirmayer is one of the most influential figures in cultural psychiatry today.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

Another big surprise was that many mental health professionals claim to be strongly opposed to the existing biomedical approach but most are reluctant to take any sort of public stand against it.

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Mad in America

MARCH 16, 2024

For my MSc in Global Mental Health and Society, my dissertation attempted to explore human-nature relationships by studying urban greenspace at the intersection of land management, public healthcare, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.

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Aging and mental health Healthcare Technology Global mental health 124

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.

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Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2025

The publication was WHOs first comprehensive mental health guidance it has issued in 20 years, and it puts human rights at the center of its call for fundamental changes in global mental health policies. There needs to be more accountability.

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health. Some, such as Patel, gave their talks virtually. What was the treatment?

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