Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World - Paperback

by China Mills (Author)

This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.

Author Biography

China Mills is a researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the interconnections between Global Mental Health, psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and colonialism.