In India, Psychiatry Has Come a Long Way

Profession's research has come a long way, Dr Still!

We've come a long way.

Freddie Mercury died in 1991. I was a nursing student at the time and one of my colleagues said Freddie deserved what happened to him because of his gay lifestyle. I was shocked, but this was not an isolated incident - as a student I experienced both overt and subtle homophobia.

Positive psychiatry: its time has come.

Traditionally, psychiatry has been defined and practiced as a branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. Based on growing empirical evidence, we believe that this definition warrants expansion to include the concept of positive psychiatry. In the present article, we provide a critical overview of this emerging field and a select review of relevant scientific ...

Geriatric psychiatry: a subspecialty whose time has come.

W hat is geriatric psychiatry? Simply put, it is the subspecialty dealing with the assessment and management of mental disorders occurring in late life—a period occasionally and somewhat arbitrarily defined as aged 65 years and over (1). This definition falsely simplifies what we do as geriatric psychiatrists and does not acknowledge the scope of practice and the specific skills requisite to th...

We Have Come a Long Way