A Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey
- Title
- A Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey
- Creator
- Kottai S.R.; Ranganathan S.
- Description
- Questions are raised about an approach towards psychiatric epidemiology, which directly imports models in medicine to count disorders of the mind to produce staggering evidence to the effect that 11% of Indians suffer from mental disorders. An alternative psychiatric epidemiology is needed, which relies on the principles of slow research, is value-based, and which defines mental health as an ethical and political problem. 2022 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-57, No. 3, pp. 19-24.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Coverage
- Kottai S.R., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed-to-be) University, Bengaluru, India; Ranganathan S., Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 129976
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Review
Collection
Citation
Kottai S.R.; Ranganathan S., “A Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/21551.