Cutting edge – The Politics Of Mental Ailment

Psychiatry has constantly had a taste for pathologising completely regular behaviour. After all, being gay was once listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook of Mental illness. Forty years back, David Rosenhan, a professor at Stanford University …See all stories on this subject


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Hip-hop can help treat depression, psychiatrists declare

A social venture called Hip Jump Psych has been set up by a neuroscientist at the Cambridge University department of psychiatry promoting using the genre to help the treatment of mental disease, saying that an awareness of mental wellness is ubiquitous …See all stories on this topic

Self-destructive Ideas 10 Times More Likely in Grownups With Asperger’s

The Lancet Psychiatry, 25 June 2014 doi: 10.1016/ S2215-0366(14)70248-2 Raja, M. Suicide risk in adults with Asperger’s syndrome. The Lancet Psychiatry, 25 June 2014 doi:10.1016/ S2215-0366(14)70257-3See all stories on this subject

Indian Psychiatry Society conference held at TMH

Jamshedpur: On the occasion of ‘World Mental Wellness Week’, Tata Main Healthcare facility (TMH) organised the 13th Yearly Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society of Jharkhand State Branch (JASCON 2014) yesterday in TMH. According to World Health Organization …See all stories on this topic

Hip-hop therapy is brand-new path to mental wellness, state psychiatrists

To help promote the concept, neuroscientist Becky Inkster, of Cambridge University department of psychiatry, and specialist psychiatrist Akeem Sule, of the South Essex Collaboration Trust, have formed Hip Hop Psych– which they call a social venture …See all stories on this topic