The Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc. was formed in the USA in 2001 to help provide mental health services for the people of the Gaza Strip, especially the children who are its future.

Research by the Gaza Community Mental Health Project

The EIPR's analysis of the new bill finds it generally in conformity with human rights standards, including the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1991.

Holmes's idea is that playing Tetris after a shocking event would take up the same mental resources that would normally be used to consolidate future flashbacks. In doing so, the notoriously addictive game could act as a "cognitive vaccine" against PTSD and provide an ironic example of a video game actually being good for you...

Since its premises were destroyed by Israeli bombs on 30 December the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) – a member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) – has been unable to provide care to an ever increasing number of traumatised civilians. Another IRCT member centre in Gaza, the Jesoor Organization, is also unable to operate due to the security situation.

Psychiatrists against human rights! Shame. Egyptian patients are no different than any other patient around the world ya welad el weskha

This guy translated Quran fully into Japanese for the first time in a mental hospital. He probably faked his mental illness to escape death sentence in the Japanese war trials.

Elyn R. Saks wrote her memoirs about living with schizophrenia and she went to attain "a graduate degree from Oxford, a law degree from Yale, and a tenured professorship at the University of Southern California."

The mental health services in Egypt today are described, and transcultural studies carried out in Egypt of the prevalence and phenomenology of anxiety, schizophrenia, depression, suicide, conversion and obsessive compulsive disorders are reviewed. The psychiatric services for children are in their infancy. Since 1983 the common and semi-accepted use of hashish has been joined by abuse by heroin and other substances.

...hmm...intends to identify the mental health care needs of Muslims.

Men deployed for 13 months or more in the past 3 years were more likely to get PTSD, severe alcohol problems. PTSD associated with mismatch between expectations about duration of deployment and reality.

The Lobotomist, a PBS documentary about Walter Freeman. It shows how the lobotomy came to be regarded as a cure for most types of mental illness.

nicely put and in a positive way. But what about prevalence of mental illness in other professions? And what about the percentage of orthopedics (for example) who had a broken bone before getting into it ?!

The aim of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers is to be of assistance to the people subjected to torture in detention places and prisons providing physical, mental and social treatment, and rehabilitation.

قانون سنة 1944

Egyptian MOH: Metal Health Secretariat

The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health

Indian advocacy initiative for rights & quality of mental services

Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness

aims to ensure that people with mental disabilities are able to live in the community and to participate in society with full respect for their human rights.

books and journal articles relating to practice guidelines in the treatment of mental disorders

A Podcast about Psychiatry and Mental Health

more than half of DSM panel had ties with pharmaceuticals

Mental state examination of Gollum