01778nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260003700042653002100079653001900100653002500119653002500144653001500169100001600184700001100200245006300211856019400274300000900468520108100477022001401558       2023                            d  bCambridge University Press (CUP)10aGeneral Medicine10aDecolonisation10aGlobal mental health10aCommunity engagement10aIndigenous1 aBeresford P1 aRose D00aDecolonising global mental health: the role of Mad Studies  uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EEF259FE948CAA0E25E57036D547EBFC/S2054425123000213a.pdf/decolonising-global-mental-health-the-role-of-mad-studies.pdf  a1-213 a<p>In recent years, there has been a growing and high-profile movement for ‘global mental health’. This has been framed in ‘psych system’ terms and had a particular focus on what has come to be called the ‘Global South’ or ‘low and middle-income countries’. However, an emerging ‘Mad Studies’ new social movement has also developed as a key challenge to such globalising pressures. This development, however, has itself both being impeded by some of the disempowering foundations of a global mental health approach, as well as coming in for criticism for itself perpetuating some of the same problems as the latter. At the same time, we are also beginning to see it and related concepts like the UNCRPD being given new life and meaning by Global South activists as well as Global North activists. Given such contradictions and complexities, the aim of this paper is to offer an analysis and explore ways forward consistent with decolonizing global mental health and addressing madness and distress more helpfully globally, through a Mad Studies lens.</p>
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