Mental Health

Books for Purchase

The Social Determinants of Mental Health, Edited by Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H., and Ruth S. Shim, M.D., M.P.H

Articles

From Cultural to Structural Competency– Training Psychiatry Residents to Act on social Determinants of Health and Institutional Racism
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD., Joel Braslow, MD, PhD., Robert M Rohrbaugh, MD.

Structural Competency and Psychiatry 
Jonathan Metzl, MD PhD., Helena Hansen MD, PhD.

Advocacy as Key to Structural Competency in Psychiatry
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Knorick R, Rousseau C.

The Evolving Understanding of Recovery: What Does the Sociology of Mental Health Have to Offer?

Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Economic Inequality and Poverty as Social Determinants of Mental Health

Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix it

Inequality: an underacknowledged source of mental illness and distress

In the Media

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? Marsha Angell. New York Review of Books, 2011.

The Illusions of Psychiatry Marsha Angell. New York Review of Books, 2011.

Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

Reports and Briefs

WHO 2014 – Social Determinants of Mental Health

IOM 2013 US – Shorter Lives, Poorer Health