Latest highlights
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The Human Rights of People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
"Can Conflicts between Dominant and Non-Dominant Paradigms be Reconciled?"
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A call for an international apology from all psychiatric professions and services to all indigenous peoples
"Starting by making the case for all australian mental health professions, institutions and services to apologise to all aboriginal and torres strait islands peoples".
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Orphanages are no place for children
The Washington Post published an Op-Ed written by Disability Rights International’s President Laurie Ahern calling for a paradigm shift in how the world acts to protect vulnerable children.
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What developed countries can learn from developing countries in challenging psychiatric stigma
Alan Rosen, collaborative member of the Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform, sends us two papers about approaches to challenging stigma associated with severe psychiatric illness and disability.
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Facing up to restraint in mental health units
An editorial of last issue of The Lancet focus on the physical restraint of patients in mental health units.