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Note: This long read essay is a result of a survey and study undertaken by the writers on unpacking loneliness in Indian cities and the kinds of responses it might require. It also contains a podcast on the connections between loneliness and...

This piece has been written by Micah Ingle and was first published by Mad in America on November 15, 2019, and can be accessed here. A recent study published in the Review of General Psychology surveys existing research on the nature and...

This piece has been written by Will Hall and was first published by Mad in America on October 31, 2019 and can be accessed here. Mainstream mental health approaches and psychiatry tend to create an us vs. them wall where...

This piece has been written by James Moore and was first published by Mad in the UK on September 28, 2019 and can be accessed here. This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Professor Peter Kinderman. Peter is Professor of...

This piece has been written by Micah Ingle and was first published by Mad in America on November 1, 2019 and can be accessed here. A recent study published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology examines how involvement in collective political...

Inclusion Within Development A call from TCI Asia Pacific This post was originally published on the #WhatWENeed Campaign official website on October 20, 2019. Transforming Communities for...

This piece has been written by Ayurdhi Dhar and was first published by Mad in America on October 11, 2019 and can be accessed here. A new critical review of the latest Lancet global mental health report finds that while...

MIA’s Rebecca Troeger interviews medical anthropologist Zhiying Ma about mental health care in China today, including involuntary hospitalization, tensions between Western psychiatry and more holistic and socially-oriented local frameworks, and opportunities to rethink paradigms of care. This piece was first published by...

This piece was first published on Mad in America on October 10, 2019 and can be accessed here. Suicide prevention should not be addressed by increased prescription of medication, says Dainius Pūras, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health. In...

Sri Lanka signed the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2016. The Sri Lankan OPDs (Organizations of Persons with Disabilities) have since risen to the occasion with strong advocacy for implementation of laws and policies. However, the right to non-discrimination...