Developments in psychiatry in India [electronic resource] : clinical, research and policy perspectives / Savita Malhotra, Subho Chakrabarti, editors.
Malhotra, Savita, editor.; Chakrabarti, Subho, editor.
2015
RC451.I6
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Title Developments in psychiatry in India [electronic resource] : clinical, research and policy perspectives / Savita Malhotra, Subho Chakrabarti, editors.
ISBN 9788132216742 electronic book
8132216741 electronic book
9788132216735
8132216733
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1674-2
Published New Delhi : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 636 pages.)
Item Number 10.1007/978-81-322-1674-2 doi
Call Number RC451.I6
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.8900954
Summary The volume evaluates major developments in psychiatry in India from the 1950s, and highlights the areas where Indian psychiatry has contributed to the development of the subject worldwide. The chapters review international as well as Indian developments in psychiatry and its sub-specialities. A wide range of clinical, research and policy-related topics have been covered in the volume, which begins with an overview of the history of psychiatry in India, moving on to developments in various sub-specialities of psychiatry in the last 60 years or so. It then specifically discusses developments in psychology and psychodynamics, general adult and child psychiatry, substance use psychiatry, community psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, and other psychiatric sub-specialities. Developments in treatment, the status of training and service in psychiatry, and legal issues related to the practice of psychiatry in India are also included. The contributors to this volume are nationally and internationally recognized experts in different areas of psychiatry. Most of them have had some association, or are currently associated, with the Department of Psychiatry at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
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PART 1: The history of psychiatry in India
Chapter 1. The beginnings of psychiatry in India
PART 2: Developments in psychology and psychodynamics
Chapter 2. Development of psychological testing in India
Chapter 3. Psychometry as an adjunct to psychiatry: An Indian perspective
Chapter 4. Cultural psychodynamics and the Indian personality
PART 3: Developments in general adult psychiatry
Chapter 5. Psychiatric nosology, its philosophy and science
Chapter 6. Indian research on schizophrenia Title in Chapter & CTP is "Schizophrenia: Indian Research"
Chapter 7. Research on acute and transient psychosis: An overview
Chapter 8. Suicide studies in India
Chapter 9. Common mental disorders in India
Chapter 10. Early intervention in the Indian context
PART 4: Developments in child psychiatry
Chapter 11. Child psychiatry research and the Indian scene
Chapter 12. Nosology and diagnostic issues in child and adolescent psychiatry
Chapter 13. Intellectual disability in India
Chapter 14. Autism spectrum disorder: Seventy years on and the plot thickens
Chapter 15. Adolescent psychiatry: An overview of the Indian research
Chapter 16. Perspectives on interventions in child psychiatry in India
PART 5: Developments in substance use psychiatry
Chapter 17. Addiction research in India
Chapter 18. De-addiction services in India
PART 6: Developments in community psychiatry
Chapter 19. From institutions, to clinics to community: The development of community mental health research in India
Chapter 20. Psychiatry in primary health care: Indian perspectives
PART 7: Developments in liaison psychiatry
Chapter 21. Psycho-oncology: Indian experiences and research
Chapter 22. Delirium research in India
PART 8: Developments in other psychiatric specialities
Chapter 23. Geriatric psychiatry in India: Developments and future directions
Chapter 24. A perspective on marital and psychosexual disorders in India
PART 9: Developments in treatment
Chapter 25. Electro-convulsive therapy: Research from India
Chapter 26. Newer somatic treatments: Indian experience
Chapter 27. Psychosocial interventions: An Indian perspective
Chapter 28. Rehabilitation psychiatry
PART 10: Developments in legal and educational aspects
Chapter 29. Challenges in undergraduate psychiatric training in India
Chapter 30. The Mental Health Act of India
Reminiscences.

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