Much has been written about the need to modify psychotherapeutic techniques to suit the cultural context of the Indian patient. Even the most ardent advocates of the need to make psychotherapy culturally relevant, often forget that similar modifications may also be necessary in the pharmacotherapy of psychiatric disorders. We often assume that a drug which is effective in one group of patients ...

of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. when we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. according to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. culture c...

In order to investigate the relationship between culture and “democracy”, it will first be necessary to take a look at what could be understood by the word « culture ». Here it is assumed that culture, or such a related thing as society, is some sort of socio-anthropological object that is susceptible to scientific research. A philosophical approach that is suitable to deal with anthropological...

Of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. When we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. According to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. Culture c...