Week 5

Question 1

Lancet and Global mental health

Answer 1

• end status as a secondary concern
• more focused on physical diseases
• need to focus on mental health problems
• need to scale up treatment and service in all countries

Question 2

Asylums and global mental health

Answer 2

Increase in the population that was mad but only 1% of the total population was mad

Question 3

Bringing together diverse actors (GMH)

Answer 3

• trying to improve mental health literacy
• destigmatize mental illness
• ensuring care around the world
• time to think about this moment and why it is so important

Question 4

Key question in GMH

Answer 4

Are mental health problems universal(the same everywhere)?(biological model)
Or are they bound to cultural concepts?
- never answered

Question 5

Bassett and Baker

Answer 5

3 schools of thought

Question 6

3 schools of thought

Answer 6

Absolutists: biological diseases that are the same everywhere in the world but have different words for the same disorder
Universalists: form of mental illness the same everywhere but the content is different (obsession with health but form is different- what people are worried about)
Relativist: mental illness is from violations of norms so there is no universal disorder

Question 7

Mental health in global south

Answer 7

• 30% people mentally ill
• NEED of treatment
• Dependency on institutional care (asylums) –> need to move towards communal care
• High levels of stigma
• untreated mentally ill (staying poor)

Question 8

Latvia Case Study

Answer 8

• Nervi = depression
• Phsyical pain with mental component (chaos causing mental and physical pain)
• Nervi: problem with society But Depression: problem with individual

Question 9

Clark Critiques

Answer 9

Reframes social problems as individual issues

Question 10

Furedi Critiques

Answer 10

Society rather focus of poverty as mental health problem rather than a social problem

Question 11

Summerfield Critiques

Answer 11

Global mental health is going to fail since concepts aren’t meaningful for those being treated
- International trauma interventions (shaming)
- global mental health workers are the new missionaries

Question 12

Jain and Jadhav Critiques

Answer 12

Community mental health services operate in isolation from the communities they serve disconnecting people from everyday realities

Question 13

Kirmayer Critiques

Answer 13

Global south prevented from contributing to knowledge production
- Can’t contribute to mental health knowledge

Question 14

Decolonizing Mental Health

Answer 14

• Those who reject absolutist/universalist approach have pushed to move away from biological-reductionist perspective
• Mills: GMH names people’s experience in alien and alienating, technical terms that deny personal or social meaningfulness Ex. Hospitalization
• Argue that those with non-Western identities at risk for involuntary, inappropriate and harmful treatment

Question 15

A Century of the Psyences

Answer 15

• growth in size of psy-disciplines
• cultural transformation of labeling mental processes
• Changed expectations, understanding, and the practice of being
  human