Mad in America
JANUARY 17, 2025
I was also acutely embarrassed and ashamed about what had happened to me so I tried to hide my experiences from everyone, even to the point of self-denial. A Mad Priest I joined a peer self-help organisation called Grow. This is essentially the same as a ctive listening which raises the level of conscious awareness in the group.
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
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. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous.
Mad in America
MAY 21, 2025
Or, in mainstream psychiatry in North America today, its the opposite claim: that it’s all really about the brain, and consciousness and awareness are just epiphenomena. Some theories justify the idea that the real action is in psychology, and everything else is not important. Human suffering has many different dimensions.
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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