Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed ana

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Collects together data compiled from 177 World Health Organization Member States/Countries on mental health care. Coverage includes policies, plans and laws for

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Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to impr