Re-Vision
With embedded biases in knowledge systems themselves, what are the ways and measures that need to beHow do we critique the agenda of treatment of mental, neurological, and substance use conditions in LMICs juxtaposed with the aim of equitable mental health for all? How has the Global Mental Health (GMH) field reacted to critique regarding its relevance in tackling mental health issues worldwide? How can we reimagine frameworks to be intersectional and foreground liberation, social justice and psy-activism, and acknowledge both the risks and resilience in resistance?How do we understand resilience when it comes to oppression that is both historical, intergenerational and day-to-day?
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Contesting Global Mental Health
Raj Mariwala, Saniya Rizwan and Amalina Sengupta
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World Mental Health Day, Medicalised Mental Health Awareness, and Psychiatric Subjectivation
Sudarshan R. Kottai
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Authoritarian Neoliberal Regimes and Global Mental Health
Beyza Bilal and Gülnur Elçik
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Enough Politeness: Decolonising Mental Health in a Society Oblivious to Its Colonial Wounds
Cammi Murrup-Stewart and Madeline Wills
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Work with Us, Not against Us
Farah Maneckshaw and Amishaa Gupta
Context
How does the Global Mental Health (GMH) field engage with mental health issues related to global humanitarian crises? How is the GMH field complicit in upholding colonial, racialized, casteist and Eurocentric power dynamics? How does the GMH field engage with mental health distress in conflict zones, and does it decry the systemic forces that cause this distress? How has lived experience within the GMH field been defined, and does it fit LMIC contexts? How does the GMH field treat identities of race, caste, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, ability, occupation and class across countries?
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Mental Health in the Time of Genocide
Dr. Samah Jabr
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Reshaping Narratives: Reproductive Justice among Women in Kashmir
Mujataba Noorul Hussain and Mahnaz Ajaz
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Mental Health and Marginalisation
Rinku
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Warriors Within: Decoding the Paradox of Strength and Vulnerability among the Naga Tribe
Khekto Chishi
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Redefining Queerscapes through Poetry
Raju Behara
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The Impact of AFSPA on the Mental Health of the Naga People
Salew P. Kadena
Engage
Who commissions research in the GMH field, and how much of academic publishing involves collaboration with local communities, survivors/service users? Where and how are recent digital solutions being put forth to address mental health concerns? What specific mental health conditions do these solutions address, and how effectively do they do so? How does the GMH field engage with the carceral system? How does the GMH field position social and environmental factors such as poverty and food insecurity in the context of mental health issues? How does the GMH field address the health issues of communities marginalised by colonisation that reside within Western nations?
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Collective Healing and Trauma-Informed Approaches for the Mental Health of Survivors of Trafficking
Faith Wanjiku Mwangi and Linzy Livian Otieno
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Mental Health Equity Global Agenda for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Gloria Chirwa, Joel Nyali and Sandra Jumbe
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Fostering Mental Healthcare in a Postcolonial Continent with Digital Medicine
Mario Incayawar, Lise Bouchard and Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard
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Tackling Mental Health Inequalities for Roma Communities in the UK
Simina Neagu and Mihai Calin Bica
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Behind Bars
Gurudev Nanda
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About ReFrame
ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative is a platform to challenge existing norms and explore diverse voices within the mental health space — expanding horizons for who gets to participate in such conversations in an effort to firmly ground mental health in a contextual, intersectional, rights-based, intersectoral framework. It is envisioned as a tool for mental health practitioners, advocates, activists, scholars, students, experts, funders, government officials, and non-profit organizations — and those from closely allied sectors.
PERMISSIONS Copyright © 2024, Publisher: Mariwala Health Foundation CONTENT WARNING: Readers to note that this edition has an article discussing the ongoing Palestinian genocide. Additional content warning for: authoritarianism, colonisation, colonial extractivism, war, forced displacement, forced migration, dispossession, apartheid, civilian killings, torture, oppression, violence perpetrated by armed forces, life in conflict regions, cultural erasure, enslavement, serfdom, coercive sterilisation, communal conflict, casteism and caste violence, ableism, transphobia, queerphobia, conversion therapy, rape, molestation, sexual violence, extra-judicial murder, torture, human rights violations, human trafficking, racism, systemic discrimination, social exclusion, stigma, Roma Holocaust, incarceration, isolation, suicide, post-partum suicide, suicidal ideation, parasuicide (thoughts of self-harm), environmental exploitation, climate change, depression, stress, anxiety, PTSD, adjustment disorder, psychosis, trauma, historical and collective trauma, generational trauma, non-affirming therapeutic practices, physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, polyvictimisation, misogyny, domestic violence, gender-based violence, abortion, miscarriages, reproductive violence, substance abuse, poverty, loss In the case of material being triggering or upsetting, you can reach out to iCall at +91 9152987821 or icall@tiss.edu
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Raj Mariwala
Ruby Hembrom
Manali Roy
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Saniya Rizwan
Amalina Sengupta
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