Mad in America
JUNE 9, 2025
In such spaces, psychologists and other mental health professionals have found greater room to advocate for integrative and holistic approaches, beyond diagnosis and medication. This asymmetry between psychiatry and psychology is further exacerbated by enduring forms of coloniality in global mental health systems.
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
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Without health insurance, known locally as medical aid, people living in South Africa are only guaranteed care for serious mental illness. No, she says. Theres nobody there.
Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2024
healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. Listen to the audio of the interview here.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift Allan Leventhal, author of Grifting Depression: Psychiatrys Failure as a Medical Science, writes that Ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.
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