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Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The psychiatrization of the majority world book cover

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Decolonizing Global Mental Health The psychiatrization of the majority world

By China Mills Copyright 2014
192 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for Global Mental Health are calling to ‘scale up’ access to psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly within the global South. Simultaneously, in the global North, psychiatry and its often chemical treatments are coming under increased criticism... Read more

Introduction De-familiarising GMH: a methodology of Encounters  1. Making Mental Health a Reality for All  2. ‘Harvesting Despair’ –Suicide Notes to the State and Psychotropics in the post  3. Educating, Marketing, Mongering  4. The Turn / The Look: Interpellating the Mad Colonial Subject  5. ‘Necessary evils’: When torture is treatment and violence is normal  6. Sly Normality: Between Quiescence and Revolt  7. Decolonising Global Mental Health

Biography

China Mills is a researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the interconnections between Global Mental Health, psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and colonialism.

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