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020			_a9780593594285 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9780593594292 _q(ebook)
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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aKidia, Khameer, _eauthor. _926809
245	1	0	_aEmpire of madness _b: reimagining Western mental health care for everyone _c/ Khameer Kidia.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCrown, _c[2026].
300			_axxiii, 255 pages ; _c24 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In Empire of Madness, Dr. Khameer Kidia offers a re-evaluation of mental health in the Global North, where the answer to the structural causes of mental distress, like racism and economic inequality, has been to medicate the symptoms rather than revolutionize those causal structures. A clinician and researcher whose own mother suffers from the psychological harm of colonialism, Kidia reports from the front lines of mental health crises at home, in clinical practice and during fieldwork, highlighting the flaws in how we cope with global mental distress. Western psychiatry, which emerged during nineteenth-century colonialism and expanded under neoliberalism, mollifies the effects-depression, anxiety, hunger, poverty-of oppressive structures rather than fixes them. "Burnout" is just one example of mental distress caused by economic and social conditions but disguised as a medical problem. Clear-eyed and open-hearted, Kidia asks the necessary questions that our current mental health system, pharmaceutically-driven and focused on one-size-fits-all solutions, doesn't address. How do history, culture, and politics shape mental distress? Is hoarding a medical problem? Why are the outcomes of schizophrenia sometimes better in places without antipsychotics? Can a Zimbabwean grandmother sitting on a wooden "friendship bench" talk through someone's problems better than a Western-trained therapist? For those living in poverty, can cash replace pills? Empire of Madness sharply intertwines discussions of the colonial origins of psychiatry, the long-lasting and psychological effects of oppression, and the overburdened health professionals striving to heal their patients in rigid, archaic systems to reimagine global mental health as a capacious, inclusive field where our wellbeing is mutual and everyone's voice-patients, caregivers, and health workers alike-matters"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMental health _912874
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