Socio-cultural Factors and Mental Health in India

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 4:14 p.m.

On this World Mental Health Day we bring you a conversation with Sudarshan Kottai on Mental Health in India and it\u2019s entanglements with socio-cultural factors both in the provision of mental healthcare as well as within the institutions of mental health themselves.

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Sudarshan Kottai teaches at the Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat and has published several articles in EPW including, \u201cHow Kerala\u2019s Poor Tribals Are Being Branded As 'Mentally Ill'\u201d, \u201cMigrant Workers and the Politics of Mental Health\u201d, \u201cA Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey\u201d, and \u201cSocial Sensitivity of Mental Health Systems\u201d.

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