A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
August 2021 Volume 11, issues 8 DOWN THE MEMORY LANE Growing up in the 1960’s, there was no way I could have avoided the influence of R.D. Laing, who in those days was a cult figure for all the impressionable teenagers. Much later, when I was earnestly training as a resident in psychiatry, Laing and […]
Volume 2 Issue 3 March, 2012 Series 2: How do I understand this case? Late Dr. Raghavendra Rao, a consultant cardiologist had published in the year 2000 a book in Kannada (“Vaidya Keliddu, Kandaddu,” ‐ ‘what the doctor heard and saw,’) containing interesting anecdotes from his practice. One is about a past middle aged male […]
Volume 2 Issue 2 February, 2012 How do I Understand This Case ? On an Out‐patient day at NIMHANS, a PG presented the history of a male patient in his mid‐30s with complaints of bouts of abnormal behavior. He had delayed milestones of development, could not progress beyond 8th standard and had mild mental retardation. […]