The North Americanization of Mental Health
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Channel: TVO Today · 2010 · Education
Read our blog "The North Americanization of Mental Health: Globalizing an ambivalent gift" http://bit.ly/9I2GqL In recent years, North American ideas about psychiatric disorders, have spread around the globe. Is that good for the world's mental health? GUESTS Ethan Watters is the author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men's Journal, Details, Wired, and PRI's This American Life, he has appeared on such national media as Good Morning America, Talk of the Nation, and CNN. Salman Akhtar is a psychoanalyst and professor at Jefferson Medical College. Natalie Rasgon is a psychiatrist and professor at The Stanford School of Medicine Cardiovascular Institute. Roger McIntyre is a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto. Kwame McKenzie is a Senior Scientist within the Social Equity and Health Research section of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also the Deputy Director of Continuing & Community Care in the Schizophrenia Program, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy Diversity and Mental Health, University of Lancashire.
