Background Northern Ireland's Mental Health Strategy 2021-2031 (Department of Health,
2021) outlines the key priorities for transforming mental health services and highlights the …

In psychiatry, the concept of “insight” commonly refers to a patient's judgment that they have
a mental illness and need clinical treatment. However, this concept has been criticized …

This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of how mental distress is read and
understood in Guyana. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews, site observations …

Abstract “Student mental health” has recently emerged as a pervasive discourse on
Canadian postsecondary campuses, characterized by non-profit organizations' expanding …

In 1991, a young British woman committed suicide in a Californian apartment. Her husband
was also found dead in an adjacent room. The complex circumstances of the event garnered …

This chapter focuses on the efforts of people who identify as users and survivors of
psychiatric services and people living with psychosocial disabilities to combat the largely …

The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University is one of the university's 27
organized research units (ORUs), providing a home for research outside traditional …

“Across the country, correctional facilities are struggling with the reality that they have
become the nation's de facto mental health care providers, although they are hopelessly ill …

On June 20, 2020, Ejaz Choudry, a sixty-two-year-old father of four, was killed by Ontario's
Peel Regional Police during a mental health “wellness check.” A viral video capturing the …

In this chapter, we engage with different forms of atrocities committed against imprisoned
dissidents in post-revolutionary Iran. This is just a sample of state violence at large against …