Info RAPS Relatives and Allies of Psychiatric Survivors Welcome to RAPS! Why the family and friends of loved ones who have survived abuse in the psychiatric system need to network and unite, now! RAPS background & activity This folder has information about the background and history of RAPS activity and advocacy. RAPS News For those…
Info Globalization of psychiatry Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries. Q&A with Arthur Kleinman This interview by the Boston Globe of professor Arthur Kleinman — author, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and Director of Harvard’s Asia Center — touches on the medicalization of psychiatry, and cross-cultural mental health issues. Arthur Kleinman…
Info Global Issues International activist concerns on human rights and alternatives in the mental health system. Globalization of psychiatry Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries. Report documents human rights violations in Turkey psychiatric facilities. Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) released a 2005 report about human rights abuses in…