Psychiatry Today

Prevention of Misuse & Abuse of Psychiatry in the Armed Forces

The year 1997 is a historic year on many counts. It is on the one hand the Golden Jubilee year of our Nation, as also of the Indian Psychiatric Society. Our meeting here today is a historic event which marks an important epoch in the development in this field of specialisation - as it is the first ever meeting of Military Psychiatry section of Indian Psychiatric Society.However the world of tod...

Institutionalised racism lies at the heart of the conceptual systems we use in psychiatry.

Karl Jaspers and human-based psychiatry.

We live in an incredibly fast-moving scientific world: what was valid yesterday is outdated today and perhaps long-forgotten tomorrow. The same applies to psychiatry. In the increasingly swift stream of psychiatric knowledge, one work stands out as a sheer immovable rock: Karl Jasper’s General Psychopathology. What other medical work can lay claim to be just as topical and valid today as it was...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

The role of music therapy in psychiatry.

Music has soothed the souls of human beings for ages. It also has helped people recover from ailments since ancient times. Today, there is a widespread interest in the use of music therapy in treating psychiatric disorders. This article describes the various types of music therapy in use today and also offers insight into how music therapy can be incorporated into the management of psychiatric ...