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Welcome to the online Indian mental health resource, providing information to mental health professionals, patients and their carers. This website has been developed with the sole intention of providing quality information from an Indian perspective to people with psychiatric illnesses, their families and to the professionals. The information has been gathered from various sources over the internet, journals and standard textbooks. Patients however, should consult their doctors regarding medication and other aspects of their illness. The website is under construction and it will be sometime before it is fully functional. Please bookmark this page and come back again to see more articles and items of interest.

Is Dhat syndrome empty of meaning? Read more about this syndrome in an interesting article by Dr Sushrut Jadhav, challenging the nosological and conceptual validity of this term. Among the consequences of war, the impact on the mental health of the civilian population is quite significant, argue Dr Srinivasa Murthy and Dr Rashmi Laxminarayana, in their review of the literature Mental Health Consequences of war.
Does the concept of cultural psychiatry remain confined to the cultural boundaries of the west? And why is it known as cultural psychiatry even in low-income countries, asks Dr Sushrut Jadhav, an eminent Psychiatrist and anthropologist from UK. To read more, click here The uncritical application of western psychiatric concepts in non-western societies resulting in culturally invalid psychiatric syndromes, have been extensively documented. What about western cultures, does Dhat syndrome appear among Britons, asks Dr Sushrut Jadhav, an eminent Psychiatrist and anthropologist from UK, while researching a new syndrome among white Britons. To read this interesting piece of research, click here

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IndianPsychiatry is designed, edited, and owned by Dr. Zia Nadeem, MPhil, MRCPsych.,
Consultant Psychiatrist, St. John's Hospital, Livingston, Scotland, UK.