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The Compass: The Borders of Sanity: Exploring Culture and Mental Health

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08/09/2016 GMT

Exploring Culture and Mental Health

The Borders of Sanity

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Borders of Sanity, Exploring Culture and Mental Health

How does culture influence mental health and treatment?

The influence that culture has on mental illness and mental health treatment.

Christopher Harding is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the influence that culture has on mental illness and mental health treatment. The questions being answered are a culmination of the series in which he explored depression in Japan, adolescent mental health in Sweden, the change in how those who hear voices in the UK are treated and the treatment of mental health in Ghana.

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The Compass: The Borders of Sanity

Christopher Harding asks if the medicalisation of mental illness obscures the wide variation between countries and cultures.

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