Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.pri.org/ &copy;2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=rss_682409203.gif http://www.pri.org/ http://www.pri.org/stories/health/global-health/globalization-of-mental-illness1882.html Global Health Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:00:00 -0600 How American ideas of mental illness and treatment may be spreading more mental health problems around the world. Global Health Mon, 14 May 2012 14:37:05 -0500 Check out our film &quot;Memory of My Face&quot; which is relevant to the article. It is part of a series of ethnographic films on severe mental illness in Indonesia, based on material drawn from 12 years of person-centered research by director and anthropologist Robert Lemelson. The film focuses on Bambang Rudjito, a university-educated Indonesian man in his late thirties diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. It explores the “globalized” features of Bambang’s illness and recovery narrative – western psychiatric diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, work opportunities in a rapidly changing urban environment, participation in an interfaith religious community, and his family’s understanding and acceptance of what Bambang describes as a “mental disability. ” But it also considers aspects of Bambang’s more complex, historically and politically shaded narrative, giving language and a deeper substance to his illness experience. Memory of My Face illustrates how the residues of colonialism and the pervasive influence of globalization affect the subjective experience of mental illness.<br /> <br /> http://www.afflictionsfilmseries.com/<br /> <br /> &lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/27265069?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ffffff&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;281&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; Global Health Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:22:10 -0500 I think we mustbe careful as different cultures have dufferent understandings of mental health which we must respect. Help should be offered to those want it. We can not stop globalisation as it is the only method of growth, the only thing i can do as a mental health compaigner is try and educate people. Acting by force never got anybody anywhere. PRI: Public Radio International