Tag: psychosocial disability
Psychotherapy and Oppression: A Reflection
The word 'psychotherapy' conjures up the image of a benevolent-looking therapist, clutching a clipboard, explaining how your current concerns are linked...
Jade
One of my kindergarten classmates is a middle-aged woman whom I will call Jade. She presents a childlike quirkiness that goes...
Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative
This essay is written by Audrey Dimola and was originally published on Mad in America on August 13, 2020 and can be...
Supporting Children’s Well-Being in a Pandemic
In the early days of the lockdown, I took to going up to the terrace of the building I live in...
Searching for the Person in the Patient
"We had a TBI (traumatic brain injury) today in the morning and an F20 (ICD code for paranoid schizophrenia) in the noon."
In Conversation with Aanchal Narang
Trigger Warning: Abuse, suicide, self-harm
In this video interview, we bring to you a conversation between our lead...
Country Report – Malaysia
In December 2019, I attended a wonderful conference organised by Mental Illness Awareness and Support Association, MIASA. It is a Mental...
Recovery: Stressing the Social Basis of the Process – Topor, Larsen,...
This article is co-authored by Alain Topor, Inger Beate Larsen & Tore Dag Bøe and was originally published on Mad in America...
Under: A Poem
I try to meet you on even groundbut somehow always get lost.Around me are ruins of a silenceit’s difficult to clamber out...
Depictions of Disability in Children’s Books: A View from India
What have you been reading during the lockdown imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic? I have kept myself occupied with children’s books...