Decolonising psychiatry in Pakistan
From Mad in South Asia: Psychiatrist Yousaf Raza details the problems with psychiatric health care in Pakistan and shows how to find a way forward....
Learning from mad knowledge more vital than ever
Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) is a coalition of people with lived experience, survivors, supporters, practitioners, academics, and campaigning and advocacy groups, all interested in...
The WHO and the United Nations: let freedom ring for the mad
Two years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “Guidance to Community Health Services” that called for a paradigm shift...
After antidepressants, a loss of sexuality
From The New York Times: “Doctors and patients have long known that antidepressants can cause sexual problems. No libido. Pleasureless orgasms. Numb genitals. Well over...
The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
This is the dilemma: according to the preeminent health and rights bodies in the world, psychiatry has to change. How much? This much: “Denial...