Transcultural Psychiatry

VISUAL SCANPATH IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Volume 8 Issue 11 November, 2018 Eyes are our windows to the world. The current focus of attention on the role of eye movements underpinning adaptive functioning as well as psychopathology has certainly been a very unique development. This has been made possible by the advent of modern eye-tracking techniques. Simply put, to process a […]

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Psycho-ophthalmology: a belittled area

Volume 12 Issues 1 January, 2022  The practice of ophthalmology and psychiatry meet over several aspects of patient diagnosis, management, and therapy. The ophthalmologist may recognize signs and symptoms of the psychiatric disorder, including conversion disorders. On the other hand, some signs like eye movement abnormalities may be associated with specific psychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia) […]

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HOW HAS COVID-19 IMPACTED THE GENDER GAP IN MENTAL HEALTH ?

Volume 11 Issues 1 January, 2021 The corona virus pandemic has had a devastating effect on the physical and mental health of people. Research shows that the pandemic has undoubtedly caused a crisis in women’s mental health when compared to men and broadened the already existing gender gap. Most women tend to put their health, […]

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THE EMOTIONAL UPHEAVAL OF FACING COVID-19 IN ONCO-CRITICAL CENTRE

Volume 11 Issues 2 February, 2021 The New Year bells ushered in with all positive hopes, wishes from family and friends. However, the mumble about novel corona virus was in the mind of health care workers alas without comprehending the enormous avalanche on physical and mental health it would unleash…. Uncertainty existed about the communicability […]

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Art of dentistry under the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic

Volume 11 Issues 3 March, 2021 unprecedented COVID19 pandemic has affected almost all aspect of life including trivial dental issues. In general dental problems are ignored as not considered life-threatening but severe pain and difficulty in eating can affect the quality of life to a great extent healthy teeth reflect a healthy lifestyle. The virus […]

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BENEFITS OF GROWING PLANTS IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS

Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 Be it the beautiful trees that flower every year in our hospitals, the countless drugs derived from plants, or the Horatio’s Garden, a national charity of the United Kingdom, providing a promising livelihood for spinal injury patients, plants are scattered across the realms of modern medicine, helping tackle various […]

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STORIES ON DEATH AND DYING

Volume 11 Issues 5 May, 2021 Movies deal with human emotions in one way or another. They make us cry, laugh, get terrified and excited.Death and a life beyond it have captivated the interests of many around the world. These movies not only dealwith the afterlife but also the complexities of human grief and other […]

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BECOMING SELF-AWARE

Volume 11 Issues 6 June, 2021 Bhagavat Gita is claimed to be a psychology text. While many of us may agree, we may not know how it is so.There may even be a slight doubt – Bhagavat Gita is over 5000 years old, how is it possible that it can everaddress my modern-day problems? Here […]

Art by Dr Ajay Kumar
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Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry

Volume 11 Issues 10 October, 2021 Epistemic injustice is not a new term but very few people understand its meaning and relevance to psychiatry. Epistemic means relative to knowledge and the degree of its validation and if we talk in the context of mental health then epistemology means the study of knowledge, justified belief, and […]