The North Americanization of Mental Health

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In recent years, North American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around the globe. Is that good for the world's mental health?

Guests:

Ethan Watters is the author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Mens Journal, Details, Wired, and PRI's This American Life, he has appeared on such national media as Good Morning America, Talk of the Nation, and CNN.

Salman Akhtar is a psychoanalyst and professor at Jefferson Medical College.

Natalie Rasgon is a psychiatrist and professor at The Stanford School of Medicine Cardiovascular Institute.

Roger McIntyre is a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto.

Kwame McKenzie is a Senior Scientist within the Social Equity and Health Research section of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also the Deputy Director of Continuing & Community Care in the Schizophrenia Program,a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy Diversity and Mental Health, University of Lancashire.

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[alguienPLC]

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[socialconscience100]

Certainly the redevelopment/commercializatio­n of CAMH, with all the unenlightened transforming b.s., is a SCAM. That's why we call it SCAMH. On the one hand they claim more and more people are mentally ill, on the other they imply THEY have a cure, ie., are "tranforming lives" when there's all the evidence to the contrary. Worse, they do this while talking about removing stigma - while actually reinforcing stigmas - that MAD people OUGHT to be "transformed" for instance, that MADNESS is BAD..

[philsnk]

Mental health is a sham. We all get old, we all go crazy, we all die.