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Community-Level Mental Healthcare Key to India’s Future, Says NIMHANS Director

Dr Prabha S. Chandra, the new Director at NIMHANS in India, believes there should be a re-examination of the delivery of mental health services throughout India. In her opinion, individuals must have access not only to psychiatric and tertiary care

Awareness

Selective Outrage: Why We Care About Some Issues but Ignore Others in Society

From the recent discourse, people are opposed to the Transgender Bill and the Delimitation Bill. Protesters rallied against both bills, yet they succeeded in only one instance. Why do people protect political power, not the people’s dignity? Justice must be

Awareness

Understanding Emotional Enmeshment: When Family Closeness Becomes Overwhelming

Take the case of a twenty-eight-year-old software engineer in Bengaluru, who gets more than twenty phone calls a day from his mother. His mother asks what he ate for lunch and makes desperate pleas for assistance with little household chores. If the

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Mother-in-Law vs Daughter-in-Law Conflict: A Family Systems Theory Perspective

Think of a Saturday morning in the kitchen of a newly married couple. The wife is cooking a meal, meticulously following a recipe she has mastered. Her mother-in-law walks into the room, takes a breath, raises her hand, picks up a spice

Education

The ‘Baby in a Box’ Myth: What B. F. Skinner Really Created

Imagine hearing that a psychologist raised his own child inside a box. Not a metaphorical one. A literal one.  For many years, the literature reported an unbelievable incident regarding B. F. Skinner, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century

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Former IPL Team Doctor Highlights Injuries, Prevention, and Mental Health in Cricket

Though all fanatics focus on the runs scored and the wickets taken during each IPL match, what most fans do not see is that, for example, Team Physicians focus on keeping players healthy. Dr Ameya Kagali, who was the Rajasthan

Awareness

Hormones and Heat: Understanding the Chemical Basis of Aggression

One of the most complex human behaviours that often comes to the surface in situations of competition, conflicts, or stress is aggression. Expression of aggression is deeply shaped by social and cultural factors, but human biology plays a crucial role

Awareness Education

Academic Pressure in India: Understanding Its Role in Rising Youth Suicide Rates

The scholastic burden is fueling the desire for youngsters’ suicide cases in India, where extreme battles of academia and expectations of parents and society create anxiety and psychological distress that are immensely greater than in Western contexts. Two major theories

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Understanding Humanity Through Existential Psychology: Why Meaning Matters

Life can be really quiet at times. It is not a quiet but a weird kind of quiet that makes you wonder, “Am I doing the right thing?” This kind of quiet can happen to anyone at any time, especially

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Nearly 1 in 8 Mothers in Bhubaneswar Face Postpartum Depression, Study Finds

According to new research done in Bhubaneswar, almost 1 in 8 mothers has postpartum depression after giving birth. This shows how important it is to pay attention to mental health even though we don’t always think about it. Mothers who have given