ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the previous chapter’s focus on the nation state by considering the history of attempts to globalise psychiatry and mental health. It considers the various applications of psychiatry in colonial settings such as French North Africa and British East Africa, as well as the place of psychiatry and ideas about mental health in post-war international governance—most notably the World Health Organization. The last section explores the relationship between psychiatry, mental health, and decolonisation, including the work of contemporary Indigenous clinicians to reformulate Western ideas about mental wellbeing and to conceptualise the legacies of colonisation in North America and Australasia.
