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Inside the Battle Between Faith and Psychiatry

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Whispers of Care: A New Initiative Documenting Stories of Care, Joy, and Resistance

My mother has lived with severe anxiety for as long as I can remember. But she is also...

How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn

Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn is a professor at Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. As a non-Indigenous scholar, she is currently part of several national and international...

How Our Blindness to Context Harms Patients and Breaks Practitioners: A Conversation With Kamaldeep Bhui

Kamaldeep Bhui is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor at Queen Mary University of London. He is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on...

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When Distress Has No Name: Re-thinking Mental-Health in Pakistan

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Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn is a professor at Werklund School of...

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My mother has lived with severe anxiety for as...

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