The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
2004-2005

Greg Miller
Staff Writer, Science magazine
San Francisco, Calif., USA

TOPIC: Explore the looming mental health crisis in developing countries.

The Tsunami's Psychological Aftermath
The massive psychosocial relief effort has had its problems, but most survivors of the Indian Ocean disaster have shown remarkable resilience.

Poor Countries, Added Perils for Women
When the Indian government disbursed the first round of financial aid to families in Tamil Nadu state, hard hit by the 26 December 2004 tsunami, they doled it out to the men, the traditional household heads.

The Unseen: Mental Illness's Global Toll
Proper care of the mentally ill is often viewed as an expendable luxury in the developing world. Recent research, including studies of depression in China and schizophrenia treatment in India, suggests it doesn't have to be that way.

China: Healing the Metaphorical Heart
Eastern and Western concepts of mental health clash as psychiatrists seek to reconcile China's apparent scarcity of mental illness with its high suicide rate.

A Spoonful of Medicine--and a Steady Diet of Normality
Private hospitals in India are showing that the best treatment for mentally ill patients is to lend purpose to their lives.

Mapping Mental Illness: An Unseen Topography
Mental disorders were once considered diseases of the affluent, but there are reasons to suspect that the opposite might be correct, because known risk factors for poor mental health--poverty, HIV, and violence--afflict many parts of the developing world.