Psychiatrists

Marathwada drought: Will outreach help reduce farmer suicides?

Marathwada drought has seen a rise in farmer suicides due to shrinking income and debts. As a result social and medical interventions have increased

Indrani Mukerjea's troubled past may have driven her to extreme behaviour, say experts

As reports about the alleged parental abuse of Indrani Mukerjea — the mother and the prime suspect in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora — during her childhood emerge, experts say that effects of extreme negative parenting may have crept deeper into her personality, turning her into a cold-hearted person

Homosexuality not mental illness, disease: Indian Psychiatric Society

The statement was issued by the country's psychiatrists after a furor was kicked up about the statements of the society's president, Dr Indira Sharma, on homosexuality last month.