Bhargavi Davar's guest appearances

Bhargavi Davar

Madness Radio

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

The SOS Show with Suchita

Medicine via myPod

Laura Delano

Adele Framer

Jay Joseph

Paula Caplan

Celia Brown

Monica Cassani

David Healy

Gail Hornstein

Michael Cornwall

Pat Bracken

Robert Whitaker

David Cohen

Carina Håkansson

Oryx Cohen

Peter Breggin

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EP 76 of THE SOS SHOW has Bhargavi Davar, the founder of Bapu Trust. Bhargavi is a childhood survivor of psychiatric institutions in India. She has endured 3 decades of trauma based on that early exposure. She has done a lifetime of work on questioning the assumptions of psychiatry and its institutions. We are glad she could be on our podcast.Find her at baputrust.comWe ask:1) Having interviewed multiple people living with "Mental illness" many say they are functioning because of it- but a certain section is unhappy with the medicines because of it's side effects. 2) The trial and error in medicines - is it due to lack of research? 3) One OF OUR EARLIER GUESTS ON THE EPISODE- FOUND THE VOICE HEARER'S NETWORK- for him the term schizophrenia doesn't exist- do we need to redefine the terminologies?4) Can you function without medicines? Is it an appropriate step? 5) Can alternate therapy work without medicines?6) Bapu trust for mind and discourse- could you share more on research? Keep your #mentalhealth first!!! HELPLINES FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION:I CALL-9152987820M MIND POWER-1800-120-820050MINISTRY OF HEALTH-08046110007NATIONAL HELPLINE: 1075 You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on https://www.eplog.media DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization.The said content is not obscene or blasphemous or defamatory of any event and/or person deceased or alive or in contempt of court or breach of contract or breach of privilege, or in violation of any provisions of the statute, nor hurt the sentiments of any religious groups/ person/government/non-government authorities and/or breach or be against any declared public policy of any nation or state.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EP 76 of THE SOS SHOW has Bhargavi Davar, the founder of Bapu Trust. Bhargavi is a childhood survivor of psychiatric institutions in India. She has endured 3 decades of trauma based on that early exposure. She has done a lifetime of work on questioning the assumptions of psychiatry and its institutions. We are glad she could be on our podcast. Find her at <a href="http://baputrust.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">baputrust.com</a> We ask: 1) Having interviewed multiple people living with "Mental illness" many say they are functioning because of it- but a certain section is unhappy with the medicines because of it's side effects. 2) The trial and error in medicines - is it due to lack of research? 3) One OF OUR EARLIER GUESTS ON THE EPISODE- FOUND THE VOICE HEARER'S NETWORK- for him the term schizophrenia doesn't exist- do we need to redefine the terminologies? 4) Can you function without medicines? Is it an appropriate step? 5) Can alternate therapy work without medicines? 6) Bapu trust for mind and discourse- could you share more on research? Keep your #mentalhealth first!!! HELPLINES FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: I CALL-9152987820 M MIND POWER-1800-120-820050 MINISTRY OF HEALTH-08046110007 NATIONAL HELPLINE: 1075 You can follow us and leave us feedback on <a href="https://facebook.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at <a href="mailto:bonjour@eplog.media">bonjour@eplog.media</a>. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on <a href="https://eplog.media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.eplog.media</a> DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. The said content is not obscene or blasphemous or defamatory of any event and/or person deceased or alive or in contempt of court or breach of contract or breach of privilege, or in violation of any provisions of the statute, nor hurt the sentiments of any religious groups/ person/government/non-government authorities and/or breach or be against any declared public policy of any nation or state.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Ep.76 MENTAL "ILLNESS" Do We Need To Redefine It? ft. Bhargavi Davar

Today, we bring you the second in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. These interviews are led by our Mad in America research news team. On October 9th and 10th, 2018, World Mental Health Day, the UK government hosted a Global Mental Health Ministerial Summit with the intention of laying out a course of action to implement mental health policies globally. In the same week, The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development published a report outlining a proposal for “scaling up” mental health care globally. In response, a coalition of mental health activists and service-users have organized an open letter detailing their concerns with the summit and report. The response has attracted the support of policy-makers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers. In our last episode, we were joined by Dr Melissa Raven, a critical psychologist and epidemiologist, who discussed problems with the scientific evidence base used by the global mental health movement. She also emphasized the need to consider responses to the distress and suffering of people globally that address the social determinants of mental health, including poverty, education, and healthcare. Today we turn our focus to the concerns raised by mental health activists in response to the UK summit and the Lancet report. To discuss these issues, we are joined first by Jhilmil Breckenridge, a poet, writer and mental health activist and later by social science researcher Dr Bhargavi Davar. Jhilmil is the Founder of Bhor Foundation, an Indian charity, which is active in mental health advocacy, the trauma-informed approach, and enabling other choices to heal apart from the biomedical model. Jhilmil also heads a team leading Mad in Asia Pacific; this is an online webzine working for better rights, justice and inclusion for people with psychosocial disability in the Asia Pacific region. She is currently working on a PhD in Creative Writing in the UK and, for the last three years, she has also been leading an online poetry as therapy group for women recovering from domestic violence. She is working on a few initiatives, both in the UK and India, taking this approach into prisons and asylums. Her debut poetry collection, Reclamation Song, was published in May 2018. For our second interview, we are joined by Dr Bhargavi Davar. She identifies as a childhood survivor of psychiatric institutions in India. She went on to train as a philosopher and social science researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and has published and co-edited several books, including Psychoanalysis as a Human Science, Mental Health of Indian Women, and Gendering Mental Health, while also producing collections of poems and short stories. Dr Davar is an international trainer in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the founder of the Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse in Pune, India. This organization aims to give visibility to user/survivor-centred mental health advocacy and studies traditional healing systems in India.

Today, we bring you the second in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. These interviews are led by our Mad in America research news team. On October 9th and 10th, 2018, World Mental Health Day, the UK government hosted a Global Mental Health Ministerial Summit with the intention of laying out a course of action to implement mental health policies globally. In the same week, The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development published a report outlining a proposal for “scaling up” mental health care globally. In response, a coalition of mental health activists and service-users have organized an <a href="https://www.nsun.org.uk/news/global-ministerial-mental-health-summit-open-letter" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">open letter</a> detailing their concerns with the summit and report. The response has attracted the support of policy-makers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers. In our <a href="https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/global-mental-health-movement/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">last episode</a>, we were joined by Dr Melissa Raven, a critical psychologist and epidemiologist, who discussed problems with the scientific evidence base used by the global mental health movement. She also emphasized the need to consider responses to the distress and suffering of people globally that address the social determinants of mental health, including poverty, education, and healthcare. Today we turn our focus to the concerns raised by mental health activists in response to the UK summit and the Lancet report. To discuss these issues, we are joined first by Jhilmil Breckenridge, a poet, writer and mental health activist and later by social science researcher Dr Bhargavi Davar. Jhilmil is the Founder of <a href="https://bhorfoundation.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Bhor Foundation</a>, an Indian charity, which is active in mental health advocacy, the trauma-informed approach, and enabling other choices to heal apart from the biomedical model. Jhilmil also heads a team leading <a href="https://madinasia.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mad in Asia Pacific</a>; this is an online webzine working for better rights, justice and inclusion for people with psychosocial disability in the Asia Pacific region. She is currently working on a PhD in Creative Writing in the UK and, for the last three years, she has also been leading an online poetry as therapy group for women recovering from domestic violence. She is working on a few initiatives, both in the UK and India, taking this approach into prisons and asylums. Her debut poetry collection, <a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/251608503" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Reclamation Song</a>, was published in May 2018. For our second interview, we are joined by Dr Bhargavi Davar. She identifies as a childhood survivor of psychiatric institutions in India. She went on to train as a philosopher and social science researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and has published and co-edited several books, including Psychoanalysis as a Human Science, Mental Health of Indian Women, and Gendering Mental Health, while also producing collections of poems and short stories. Dr Davar is an international trainer in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the founder of the <a href="http://www.camhindia.org/sponsors.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse</a> in Pune, India. This organization aims to give visibility to user/survivor-centred mental health advocacy and studies traditional healing systems in India.

Jhilmil Breckenridge and Bhargavi Davar - Global Mental Health - An Old System Wearing New Clothes

How does the legacy of colonialism affect mental health in India? Are women’s rights, spiritual freedom, and ant-colonialism intertwined? Do women who choose a path of spiritual renunciation have the same freedom as men? Where are human rights more respected: in traditional temples, or in hospital locked wards? Bhargavi Davar’s mother Bapu was a psychiatric abuse survivor persecuted for her religious devotion. Bapu’s struggle inspired Bhargavi to found the Bapu Trust, where she leads advocacy for mental health reform and community development throughout Asia. Bhargavi is also a lead organizer with INTAR, the International Network Towards Alternatives for Recovery. www.baputrust.com http://bit.ly/1Mkn3u9 http://bit.ly/1TY2Ap0 http://bit.ly/25KXMp2 www.intar.org https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/03/india-women-disabilities-locked-away-and-abusedThe post Human Rights in India | Bhargavi Davar | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.

How does the legacy of colonialism affect mental health in India? Are women’s rights, spiritual freedom, and ant-colonialism intertwined? Do women who choose a path of spiritual renunciation have the same freedom as men? Where are human rights more respected: in traditional temples, or in hospital locked wards? Bhargavi Davar’s mother Bapu was a psychiatric abuse survivor persecuted for her religious devotion. Bapu’s struggle inspired Bhargavi to found the Bapu Trust, where she leads advocacy for mental health reform and community development throughout Asia. Bhargavi is also a lead organizer with INTAR, the International Network Towards Alternatives for Recovery. <a href="http://www.baputrust.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.baputrust.com</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1Mkn3u9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1Mkn3u9</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1TY2Ap0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1TY2Ap0</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/25KXMp2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/25KXMp2</a> <a href="http://www.intar.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.intar.org</a> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/03/india-women-disabilities-locked-away-and-abused" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/03/india-women-disabilities-locked-away-and-abused</a>The post <a href="https://www.madnessradio.net/human-rights-in-india-bhargavi-davar-madness-radio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Human Rights in India | Bhargavi Davar | Madness Radio</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.madnessradio.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Madness Radio</a>.

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