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Psychiatry

  • The horrors of queer conversion therapy in India

    The horrors of queer conversion therapy in India

    Nolina Minj
    · Sep 07, 2022 · 09:00 am
  • How do medicine and violence interact in Kashmir? This book explores their disorienting world

    How do medicine and violence interact in Kashmir? This book explores their disorienting world

    Saiba Varma
    · Jun 21, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • How a writer whose day (and night) job is being a psychiatrist looks at the world of Covid-19

    How a writer whose day (and night) job is being a psychiatrist looks at the world of Covid-19

    Ali Madeeh Hashmi
    · Oct 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • A diagnosis of mental illness is a double-edged sword that helps a patient but could also cause harm

    A diagnosis of mental illness is a double-edged sword that helps a patient but could also cause harm

    Prateek Sharma
    · Oct 24, 2018 · 02:30 pm
  • How can you treat someone who doesn’t accept they are ill?

    How can you treat someone who doesn’t accept they are ill?

    Carrie Arnold, Mosaic
    · Aug 12, 2018 · 02:30 pm
  • Professor NN Wig, doyen of Indian psychiatry, dies at 88

    Professor NN Wig, doyen of Indian psychiatry, dies at 88

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 13, 2018 · 06:35 pm
  • This book asks why psychiatrists have been so silent about the trauma of the Partition

    This book asks why psychiatrists have been so silent about the trauma of the Partition

    Alok Sarin Sanjeev Jain
    · May 03, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Lab notes: Scientists field test a ‘virtual psychiatrist’ tool to help diagnose mental illness

    Lab notes: Scientists field test a ‘virtual psychiatrist’ tool to help diagnose mental illness

    Dinesh C Sharma
    · Dec 27, 2017 · 05:30 am
  • When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment

    When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment

    Prateek Sharma
    · Nov 01, 2016 · 02:30 pm