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Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries.

Q&A with Arthur Kleinman by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-01-01 15:02
This interview by the Boston Globe of professor Arthur Kleinman -- author, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and chair of Harvard University's Department of Anthropology -- touches on the medicalization of psychiatry, and cross-cultural mental health issues.
Arthur Kleinman by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-01-17 08:58
Psychiatrist and chair of Harvard's department of anthropology
MindFreedom Responds to a Call for "More Money" for Mental Health in Poor & Developing Countries by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-09-04 16:10
Media are widely covering a news story about global mental health. Lancet, the widely-respected medical publication, published a study calling for more money for mental health services in poor developing countries. World Health Organization promptly put out an endorsement of this call for more money. But MindFreedom asks, "more money for what"?

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Jay Mahler

Jay is a survivor of forced electroshock who spent ten years in the mental health system. He is now a widely respected leader in California, where he founded Mental Health Consumer Concerns and the California Network of Mental Health Clients. Jay is pictured here at a MindFreedom strategy conference at Highlander. (Photo by Tom Olin.)
 
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