Unseen

Field Notes of a Global Psychiatrist

The book aspires to educate on the mental health gap by showing rather than telling and using narrative rather than epidemiology and statistics.

Stigma still surrounds suffering from mental health problems, and in most low-resource settings in “developed” and especially the “developing” world, this prejudice is compounded by an utter lack of resources to address these problems. The class of mental health problems is the greatest source of morbidity worldwide compared to all other categories of health problems and is also the most neglected. The difference between the vast mental health needs worldwide and the scarce resources that address them is known as the “mental health gap.” This book portrays this gap through the story of two men suffering from schizophrenia and clinical depression in an unnamed low-income country. At the same time, it portrays how “there” can be “anywhere” by providin