Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone with Dr Khameer Kidia PREVIEW

ABOUT ISPS-US ISPS-US promotes psychological and social approaches to states of mind often called "psychosis" in treatment, education, and advocacy through collaborations between service providers, experts by experience, and family members. Join us in our mission by becoming a member at www.isps-us.org Webinar Description Join ISPS-US for an engaging webinar featuring author Dr. Khameer Kidia and his urgent new book, Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone. A Rhodes Scholar and Harvard physician-anthropologist, Dr. Kidia fundamentally re-evaluates the Western approach to mental health, which often focuses on medicating individual symptoms while ignoring the exploitative societal systems, from debt and housing insecurity to the psychological effects of colonialism, that cause widespread distress. Through readings from the book and an insightful author chat, we will explore Kidia's nuanced questions: How do history, culture, and politics shape mental distress? Can social interventions like cash payments replace pills for those in poverty? And what lessons can we draw from global mental health care approaches, particularly in poorer countries, where outcomes for conditions like schizophrenia are sometimes surprisingly better without relying solely on Western-style psychopharmacology? This event invites clinicians, caregivers, and people with lived experience to consider a truly global and mutual vision of wellbeing that prioritizes structural change alongside clinical care. This is a preview. To view the whole webinar visit www.isps-us.org/education to visit our webinar library Presenter Bio Khameer Kidia is a writer, physician, and anthropologist at Harvard Medical School and University of Zimbabwe. A Rhodes Scholar and 2023 New America Fellow, Kidia has worked on global mental health research, practice, and advocacy for the last decade. His writing has been published in New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Psychiatry, The New York Times, Slate, Yale Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Born in Zimbabwe, Kidia lives between Harare and Washington, D.C.