📌'ReFrame VI: Global Mental Health from the Margins' addresses the averted eye in psy-disciplines by foregrounding voices from: 🔴Turkish, Kenyan & Dalit movements; 🔴Palestine, Malawi & Kashmir; 🔴Quichua, Naga, & Roma Indigenous Communities OUT NOW:

📍heres a quotable quote: “As mental health professionals it's time we stop labelling communities as 'hard to reach' and start seeing ourselves as the ones who are inaccessible.” Dr Aparna Joshi 🙌🏽🙌🏽 #MhiConf2025 #MentalHealth

@iCALLhelpline @SukoonTiss Asymmetric interactions between people, the environment, and institutions governing both, generate socially toxic landscapes that are actively counter therapeutic (...) " (p. 12-13).” Sushrut Jadhav @deletedalit

@KottaiSudarshan Prof Amrita Joshi wraps things up “Institutes that hold power but also therapists who are in that space need to examine that power & privilege - it’s not linear, neat or clean but in fact messy & continuous & with that we hold ability to create connection & hope.”

@KottaiSudarshan 🙌🏽🙌🏽“A therapists lack of acknowledgement of injustice can lead to pinning the blame & the client or the clients thought process.” Neha Fathima Wahab #MhiConf2025 #queeringmentalhealth

Sabah wraps up an incredibly complex panel “The issues raised are structural but are seen as individual. It’s also really difficult to compartmentalise our identities - particularly when being a minority in a minority.“ #MhiConf2025

@ur_aasim Aiman poses an important question to us all “Who is allowed to have an inner life? Conversations around what is agency need to change.” #MhiConf2025