PMID- 27522868
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180910
LR  - 20220318
IS  - 2045-7960 (Print)
IS  - 2045-7979 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-7960 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 6
DP  - 2016 Dec
TI  - Primum non nocere. The case for a critical approach to global mental health.
PG  - 506-510
AB  - The Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) argues that there is a moral 
      imperative that psychiatric treatments should be made available to all 
      communities across the world. But psychiatric theories, categories and 
      interventions emerged in the Western world are based on a set of assumptions 
      about the nature of the self and society, nature and the supernatural, health and 
      healing that are not universally accepted. In this paper we argue that there is a 
      stronger moral case for caution with regard to the export of psychiatric 
      thinking. Without a critical interrogation of such thinking the MGMH is at risk 
      of doing a great deal of harm to the diverse, and sometimes fragile, systems of 
      care that already exist across the world.
FAU - Bracken, P
AU  - Bracken P
AD  - Centre for Mental Health Care and Recovery, Bantry General Hospital,Bantry,Co 
      Cork,Ireland.
FAU - Giller, J
AU  - Giller J
AD  - Centre for Mental Health Care and Recovery, Bantry General Hospital,Bantry,Co 
      Cork,Ireland.
FAU - Summerfield, D
AU  - Summerfield D
AD  - Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College,London,UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160815
PL  - England
TA  - Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci
JT  - Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
JID - 101561091
SB  - IM
MH  - *Global Health
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Mental Health
MH  - Psychotherapy
PMC - PMC7137661
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Global mental health
OT  - critical thinking
OT  - epistemology
OT  - reductionism
EDAT- 2016/11/05 06:00
MHDA- 2018/09/11 06:00
PMCR- 2016/08/15
CRDT- 2016/08/16 06:00
PHST- 2016/11/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/09/11 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/15 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2045796016000494 [pii]
AID - 00049 [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S2045796016000494 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2016 Dec;25(6):506-510. doi: 10.1017/S2045796016000494. 
      Epub 2016 Aug 15.