Global Mental Health – Condensed Reading list. Books: Public Health Perspectives: • Patel, V., Minas, H., Cohen, A., & Prince, M. J. (Eds.). (2013). Global mental health: Principles and practice. OxFord University Press. Critical Perspectives: • Kohrt, B. A., Mendenhall, E., & Brown, P. J. (2018). Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspective. The International EncycloPedia oF AnthroPology, 1-10. • White, R. G., Jain, S., Orr, D. M., & Read, U. M. (Eds.). (2017). The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Non-Fiction: • For an accessible account oF some oF the critical arguments surrounding Global Mental Health: Watters, E. (2010). Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche. Simon and Schuster. • For an accessible account oF the history oF Madness (From a Western PersPective): Porter, R. (2002). Madness: A brief history. OxFord University Press. Articles: Public Health Perspectives: • Most recent Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health: Patel, V., Saxena, S., Lund, C., ThornicroFt, G., Baingana, F., Bolton, P., ... & Herrman, H. (2018). The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable develoPment. The Lancet, 392(10157), 1553-1598. • FriendshiP Bench Program in Zimbabwe (Task shiFting and Psychological intervention in Primary Care) : Chibanda, D., Weiss, H. A., Verhey, R., Simms, V., Munjoma, R., Rusakaniko, S., ... & Abas, M. (2016). EFFect oF a Primary care–based Psychological intervention on symPtoms oF common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: a randomized clinical trial. Jama, 316(24), 2618-2626. • MANAS Program in India (Task shiFting in Primary Care): Patel, V., Weiss, H. A., Chowdhary, N., Naik, S., Pednekar, S., Chatterjee, S., ... & Simon, G. (2010). EFFectiveness oF an intervention led by lay health counsellors For dePressive and anxiety disorders in Primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 376(9758), 2086-2095. • Systematic review oF Task shiFting apProaches: HoeFt, T. J., Fortney, J. C., Patel, V., & Unützer, J. (2018). Task-sharing apProaches to imProve mental health care in rural and other low-resource settings: a systematic review. The Journal of rural health, 34(1), 48-62. • Systematic review oF stigma reducing intervention in Primary Care: Heim, E., Kohrt, B. A., Koschorke, M., Milenova, M., & ThornicroFt, G. (2020). Reducing mental health-related stigma in Primary health care settings in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 29. • Interaction with traditional healers: CamPbell-Hall, V., Petersen, I., Bhana, A., Mjadu, S., Hosegood, V., Flisher, A. J., & MHaPP Research Programme Consortium. (2010). Collaboration between traditional Practitioners and Primary health care stafF in South AFrica: develoPing a workable PartnershiP For community mental health services. Transcultural psychiatry, 47(4), 610- 628. Critical Perspectives: • General critical arguments on Global Mental Health: Bayetti, C., & Jain, S. (2017). Problematising global mental health. Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health, 224. • Critical PersPectives on the cross-cultural validity oF Psychiatric diagnostic categories and the use oF Psychometric scales: 2 Ventevogel, P., Jordans, M., Reis, R., & De Jong, J. (2013). Madness or sadness? Local concePts oF mental illness in Four conFlict-afFected AFrican communities. Conflict and health, 7(1), 3. • Critical PersPectives on the notion oF scales and the use oF metrics in Global Mental Health: Bemme, D., & D’souza, N. A. (2014). Global mental health and its discontents: An inquiry into the making oF global and local scale. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(6), 850-874. • Critical perspectives on GMH ideas, their translation into national Policy and their Practical imPlementation: Jain, S., & Jadhav, S. (2009). Pills that swallow Policy: Clinical ethnography oF a community mental health Program in Northern India. Transcultural psychiatry, 46(1), 60-85. • Critical perspectives on the cultural validity oF mental health recovery: Bayetti, C., Jadhav, S., & Jain, S. (2017). The re-covering selF: a critique oF the recovery- based apProach in India’s mental health care. • PersPectives on local suFFering, mental health and traditional healing: Read, U. M., Adiibokah, E., & Nyame, S. (2009). Local suFFering and the global discourse oF mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study oF resPonses to mental illness in rural Ghana. Globalization and Health, 5(1), 13. • PersPective on mental health, our interaction with our wider ecologies, and the imPortance oF narrative in clinical Practice: Jadhav, S., & Barua, M. (2012). The ElePhant Vanishes: ImPact oF human–elePhant conFlict on PeoPle's wellbeing. Health & place, 18(6), 1356-1365. • Postcolonial arguments on Global Mental Health: Davar, B. V. (2017). Globalizing Psychiatry and the case oF ‘vanishing’alternatives in a neocolonial state. Wider Readings on Culture and Health: Fadiman, A. (2012). The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures. Macmillan. Napier, A. D., Ancarno, C., Butler, B., Calabrese, J., Chater, A., Chatterjee, H., ... & Macdonald, A. (2014). Culture and health. The Lancet, 384(9954), 1607-1639. 3 .