Human Rights Should be Central to Global Mental Health Approaches

Samantha Lilly. Mad in America. April 7, 2022.

An article published in the International Review of Psychiatry offers a comprehensive review of the current state of human rights in mental healthcare across the globe.

The article is authored by some of the world’s leaders in global mental health: Artin A. Mahdanian of Johns Hopkins, Marc Laporta of McGill’s Douglas Research Center, Nathalie Drew Bold and Michelle Funk of the World Health Organization, and Dainius Pūras, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.

While there is an academic discussion emerging on human rights in mental health, there remains work to be done to make rights-based approaches central to the global delivery of mental healthcare rather than merely an alternative …