Healthcare Hospitality Poverty and mental health 
Mad in America
JULY 31, 2025
1 This burden in mental health systems is paralleled globally, and yet, the WHO estimates that 35 to 50% of individuals in high income countries like the U.S. do not receive mental health care. 2 There is a significant treatment gap coupled with global underfunding in mental health care.
Mad in America
MARCH 19, 2025
Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here.
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Real Psychiatry
JULY 27, 2025
Fourth as elaborated in the subsequent text – if you magically eliminate the problems of mental illness, substance use, and homelessness – the problem is solved. The definitive solution: Per my previous analysis this order conflates “crime and disorder” with homelessness, mental illness, and substance use.
Mad in America
JANUARY 8, 2025
B ecky Brasfield has emerged as a formidable advocate for change in the complex landscape of mental health care.A She has been a fellow with both the IL Care and HSRI Behavioral Health Policy programs and was appointed Commissioner of the Southeast Expanded Mental Health Services Program.
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. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.
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