
Dörte Bemme
@dbemme
Anthropologist of global psychiatry. Lecturer in Society & Mental Health @GHSMatKCL and @kcsamh (dr./she/they)
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06-06-2015 15:10:23
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Special Issue 👩🎓Dörte Bemme Dominique Béhague Theorizing the 👥 “social”👥 in mental health research and action WATCH THIS SPACE! 🪂 link.springer.com/collections/ei…


Finally public! My story of how I was sexually harassed, marginalized, silenced, excluded, and gaslighted at/by the HarvardSTS Program. Join the #MeTooSTS and #WeDoSTS movement to fight together against abuses of power in STS/academia! 🤬😱😲😭😳🤮🤢✊medium.com/@claudia_gertr…


It’s out! 📮 "We call for a radical shift towards #funding mechanisms that recognize communities and community-based organisations as active agents of change, and that complement their local experience and knowledge." The Lancet Global Health #globalmentalhealth thelancet.com/journals/langl…

I learned a lot from working with Dörte Bemme Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social and many others on this project. Here are our reflections on striving for “mutuality” (and inevitably failing) in the context of global (mental) health collaborations link.springer.com/article/10.100…



Central to our #research approach is social #theory based on multiple forms of knowledge. In a new CSMH led article, 39 international collaborators have developed a framework to guide mutuality in global #mentalhealth Dörte Bemme Tessa Roberts Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM) King's Social Science & Public Policy Economic and Social Research Council


💡New publication💡: our @Decolmad team just published an editorial calling for a deeper & more committed engagement with historical research in Global Mental Health as a way to re-imagine illness, healing & their relation to culture, justice & well-being sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Global Mental Health special issue in Transcultural Psychiatry is here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tpse/60/3 The open-access editorial by our very own Dörte Bemme revisits the epistemic politics of the field, including a critical reflection on the changing contours of the "gap." ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health

It also includes a call to action on gender equity, co-developed by a group 102 women at different stages of their career from 26 countries around the globe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Transcultural Psychiatry

Women in Global Mental Health Research An online launch event of the 'Call to Action on Gender Equality' co-developed by 102 women from 26 countries. Oct 5th, 1-2.30pm (UK time) Contact Kelly Rose-Clarke Dörte Bemme for joining details The Call: doi.org/10.1177/136346…


🌏💡 Interested in epistemic justice in mental health research? Join ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health for the launch of 'Theorizing the social in mental health research and action' in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 🗓️ 18 April 🕔 17:00-18:30 & reception 📍 King's College London & Zoom 🎫 Book now ⬇️ tickettailor.com/events/esrccen…

🌏 💡 TOMORROW: Join our hybrid event to celebrate the launch of 'Theorizing the social in mental health research and action', a Special Issue in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 🗓️18 April 🕔 17:00-18:30 📍 King's College London & Zoom 🎫 Book tickets⬇️ tickettailor.com/events/esrccen…

Our Economic and Social Research Council Centre's special issue in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology on ‘Theorizing the social in mental health #research and action’ was launched yesterday, exploring the social perspective on #mentalhealth and why it matters. 👀link.springer.com/journal/127/vo… King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's Social Science & Public Policy