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The State of Maternal Health in India

This intervention discusses the state of maternal health in India.

Role of Memoirs in Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness in India

Vol. 58, Issue No. 23, 10 Jun, 2023
Ann Treessa Benny

How reading about mental illness in the form of memoirs encourages us to reimagine our understanding and get past the popular stigmatised depictions of mental illness in India is explored in this article. This information can come to the aid of medical enthusiasts, psychologists, psychoanalysts, and even educators in considering the subjective dimensions of the experience of mental illness apart from the results of scientific inquiry and reducing the stigma of mental illness in India.

A Step Forward for Abortion Rights and a Blow to the Marital Rape Except

Vol. 57, Issue No. 47, 19 Nov, 2022
Ayushi Agarwal

The Supreme Court of India has recently held that Rule 3B of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021, which details the categories of women who are eligible for termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks, should be interpreted to include any woman who has undergone a material change of circumstances. It also holds that marital rape would be rape for the purposes of the MTP Act.

Social Sensitivity of Mental Health Systems

Vol. 57, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2022
Sudarshan R Kottai

The NCRB data on suicides by daily wage earners underscore the social structural determinants of mental well-being.

A Mental Health Epidemic?

Vol. 57, Issue No. 3, 15 Jan, 2022
Sudarshan R Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan

Questions are raised about an approach towards psychiatric epidemiology, which directly imports models in medicine to count disorders of the mind to produce staggering evidence to the effect that 11% of Indians suffer from mental disorders. An alternative psychiatric epidemiology is needed, which relies on the principles of slow research, is value-based, and which defines mental health as an ethical and political problem.

Psychologist as Survivor

Vol. 56, Issue No. 48, 27 Nov, 2021
Kumar Ravi Priya

A psychologist reflects on his experience of being a COVID-19 caregiver, juggling survivor’s guilt and a fear of infection.

 

Not ‘Sailing in the Same Boat’: Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Been Worse for LGBTQI+ Persons in India

While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives across the world, there can be no argument that the worst-affected are individuals and communities that were already vulnerable before the pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated and made visible existing structural inequities. Like other crises, the pandemic is not neutral to gender, caste, ethnicity, class, sexuality or any other determinant of one’s social location. It is more than clear now that people already marginalised and stigmatised, are the worst hit by the pandemic lockdowns. The hit is marked on several axes —psychological, economic...

COVID-19 and Tribal Communities: How State Neglect Increased Marginalisation during the Pandemic

In the absence of state support and social security, the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns created short- and long-term hardships for already marginalised tribal communities in India.

Resignation Syndrome

Vol. 56, Issue No. 35, 28 Aug, 2021
Asrarul Haque Jeelani, Md Adil Hussain

Unresolved amidst the Refugee Crisis Oscar-nominated documentary film Life Overtakes Me shines a light on the psychological and emotional distress suffered by refugee children.

Mental Justice of the NT-DNTs in Context of the Pandemic

Vol. 56, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2021
Mental justice of Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) should be the most important aspect of their overall access to social justice. Mental health needs to be redefined as a justice issue, especially in the context of marginalised communities. The NT-DNTs being perhaps one of the earliest communities worldwide to be criminalised for dissenting, the ramifications have acutely affected their mental justice over the last 150 years. This has worsened during the current pandemic. The article puts forth recommendations for the mental and therefore overall justice of NT-DNTs.

Tragedy on Trial

Vol. 55, Issue No. 35, 29 Aug, 2020

The outcome of procedural justice involves both cost for some and benefits for others.

COVID-19: Mental Healthcare without Social Justice?

Vol. 55, Issue No. 31, 01 Aug, 2020
Roli Pandey, Shilpi Kukreja, Kumar Ravi Priya

Mental health is not just about absence of mental illness. It is critical that the government takes long-term economic and mental health policy measures to ensure employment, basic amenities and public health, without which mental healthcare cannot address the debilitating effects of ongoing structural violence on a majority of citizens.

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