Mad in America

JUNE 9, 2025

Common human experiences — sadness, anxiety, grief, fatigue, disillusionment — are increasingly framed as mental disorders. This pathologisation of suffering fuels a constant expansion of psychiatric categories, feeding the pharmaceutical industry and reinforcing the notion that there is a pill for every pain.

Poverty and mental health

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. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. Linda 1 is a 20-year-old Zimbabwean refugee living in South Africa. No, she says. Theres nobody there.

Poverty and mental health

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. the UK, and Canada into the Global South?

Global mental health