Global Mental Health and Society MSc

The University of Edinburgh

Global mental health is an interdisciplinary discipline with academic training programmes, journals, textbooks and research consortiums working to explore and address a range of global mental health priorities in diverse global settings.Much of this activity has been situated in psychiatry and public health disciplines, with a growing body of scholarly work from other professional and social science disciplines including:medical anthropologysocial workinternational developmentclinical psychologyThe role of the social sciences in global mental health is crucial to:further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ and 'wellbeing' are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contextstheorising the intersections between social, economic and technological development and mental healthdeveloping effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health and development interface

School of Social and Political Science