Categorised by "lived-experiences"
In 'Voices'
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Relocating Mental Health Conversations to Native Queer Subcultures in India
The Hijra community as a site and source of care This article attempts a culture-sensitive conv...Read More
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Mental Stress: The Toiling Class in Slums
How customs and traditions, songs and rituals play a roleRead More
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Rebuilding Therapeutic Spaces
Unlearning old frameworks: Towards a less one-sided practitioner-client relationshipRead More
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An Invisible Intersection: Mental Healthcare for the Deaf Community
A realization crucial to building a Deafinclusive society is that living in a nonsigning world ca...Read More
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Seeding Wellbeing in Drought- Prone Regions
A psychosocial approach to working with distraught farming communitiesRead More
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What Kind of Interventions Do We Need Now?
Poetry and healing: beyond clinical options This is an essay on how it is imperative, especially...Read More
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MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | JULY - SEPT, 2020
We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More
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Resources for LGBTQI community during COVID
The pandemic has a disproportionate impact on persons and communities marginalised by gender and ...Read More
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Challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives & countering historical violence & discrimination, in mental health practice
The edifice of mental health and psychiatry in India has been responsible for pathologizing non-n...Read More
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Collaborating with others to bridge the mental health care gap
If we want to influence social change, we must work in tandem with others. At MHI, we support and...Read More
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We fund initiatives that are user-centered, and employ a human rights-based approach
At the onset we knew that MHI would employ an intersectional and intersectoral approach to funding.Read More
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How our approach has shaped the initiatives that we’ve invested in this year (2019-2020)
At MHI we believe in a psychosocial approach to mental health – that there are critical social de...Read More
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Where Social Justice Meets Mental Health
A discussion on social justice, collective mental health and the impact of social hierarchies of ...Read More
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I Walk the Line
This article examines data from a research study that explored treatment experiences of users, an...Read More
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Unrecognized and Unaddressed
Exploring the mental health gap for persons with physical and/or sensory disabilitiesRead More
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ReFrame: Editor's Note
An Editor's Note on ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative that challenges existing...Read More
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The ideal of ‘Recovery’
A critique of the conventional approach to ‘care’ views persons with mental health that diagnose...Read More
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Enhancing Livelihoods
Fostering social inclusion through setting up robust social, economic and livelihoods support sys...Read More
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Peer Support Practice
Peer support is based on support due to similar lived experiences. MHI recently launched a module...Read More
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MHI's Quarterly Newsletter
Read about our latest partners, innovative projects we've been funding and upcoming events throug...Read More
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Professional Solidarity : What Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice Means To Me As A Mental Health Practitioner
I’m a 25-year-old therapist with a background in Clinical Psychology. I have had roughly about 3 ...Read More
In 'Insights'
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Neglected and Forgotten: Women with Disabilities during the COVID Crisis in India
Rising Flame and Sightsavers' report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women with disabilities in India. The report explores impacts relate...
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ReFrame III: Mental Health beyond Clinical Contexts
MHI's 3rd Edition of ReFrame: 'Mental Health beyond Clinical Contexts'
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Mental Health Matters
Mental Health Starter Kit.
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Entrepreneurial Well-Being: Wearing Many Hats
A study on the mental health and mental well-being of entrepreneurs
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Turning Pain into Power
A charter, by a national survivor-led organisation Survivors’ Voices, developed through research and consultation with Survivors’ Voices Research G...
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Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Of Psychiatric Drugs
A guide intended to educate people about their options if they decide to explore going off psychiatric medication after long term use.
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Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Why people sometimes hear voices, believe things that others find strange, or appear out of touch with reality, and what can help.