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South African and Brazilian Youth Leaders Reimagine Global Mental Health Care

Child Mind Intitute

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Mad in Portugal

Mad in America

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. The goal, as stated on their website, is to foster critical thinking while welcoming a plurality of perspectives on distress.

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99 Pubs and Zero Followers? Psychiatric Leadership in the Age of Influencers

Psychiatric Times

It is primarily nonmental health professionals who are shaping the mental health discourse via social media platforms. One factor is that psychiatry is distinctive among medical specialties in that there are no explicit physical exam findings or lab values to match a presentation to a diagnosis and treatment. Kolovich G.

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WPA Launches 2025 Medical Student Essay Competition: Reducing Inequalities and Promoting Inclusion to Improve Mental Health

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

It is an excellent opportunity for aspiring healthcare professionals to contribute to the global conversation on mental health and social equity, shaping policies and practices that can drive real change.

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Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

Mad in America

They have less expertise than what theyre trying to present. Ayurdhi Dhar: I see the same thing with the global mental health movement. Its really a dishonest practicea cover-up. It comes from a place of self-doubt within psychiatrythey know less than what theyre acknowledging. Maybe you dont know. She never wrote back.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

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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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

Mad in America

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.”