Women in academic psychiatry: view from India

Child Psychiatry in India—a Western View

In the Sixties and Seveniies child psychiatry expanded very rapidly in the West. Inpatient, outpatient and community services of all kinds were c>tab-lished and there was a parallel increase in staff, particularly psychiatrists, psychologists , social workers and nurses. A clue to this burgeoning is seen in the numbers of consultant child psychiatrists working in the British National Health Ser...

Women in Academic Psychiatry: A Mind to Succeed

Becoming an Academic Researcher in Psychiatry: A View From the Trenches.

Successful academic research careers must withstand the pressures of inevitable challenges. Some challenges are inherent to the nature of the work; for example, the identification of “researchable” problems requires innovative thinking; the completion of projects requires tenacity and detail-orientation; and the development of a productive research program requires management skills and consist...

Focus on psychiatry in India.

Psychiatry in India and Pakistan

The partition of India has thrown upon the Governments of the two Dominions responsibilities of such urgency that time must elapse before plans for the health of the population can take shape. When these plans come to be formulated the question of priorities is sure to arise. Mental illness did not arouse much medical enthusiasm in India in days gone by; and there (as elsewhere) other forms of ...