Volume 8 Issue 4 April, 2018 It was a beautiful chilled snowy morning few years back in December. Me and my senior rushed to OPD canteen after finishing morning class and had aloo parata, makkan, cup of tea in a canteen attached to OPD building at around 9.00 am. I was supposed to clear at […]
Premature Mortality Among People With Severe Mental Illness (SMI)
Volume 8 Issue 4 April, 2018 Mental illness (MI) accounts for one third of all years lived with disability throughout the world, and despite its tragic position as the leading cause of global disease burden, MI is underappreciated for its impact on overall population health. For instance, over three decades of research into the morbidity […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 4 April, 2018 “VOICE” I was sitting in my bed room watching the the tree outside in the early hours of the morning. I heard the sound of the cookoo, coo, coo, and was lost in the voice. Suddenly my niece “said aunty see the bird it is black and can’t believe […]
From The Desk of Editor
Volume 8 Issue 4 April, 2018 MUSIC THERAPY Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. Music therapy can involve playing music, singing, creating music, moving to music, listening to music, or teaching a person to play music. Goodman has identified three […]
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 1. Object Permanence Phenomenon.” theory of Cognitive Development was proposed by: A. Anna Freud B. Theodore Simon C. Karl Koffka D. Jean Piaget 2. Psychotherapy should be Client centered/ Tailor mad, this was a notion of A. Abraham Maslow B. Laura Pearls C. Carl Rogers D. Rollo May 3. […]
Can You CROSS THE CROSSWORD!!
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 ACROSS DOWN ANSWERS ACROSS 2. Freud 8. ID 10. Anxiety 11. Oral 12. Instinct 13. Sex DOWN 1. Superego 3. Phallic 4. Thanatos 5.Drive 6.Latency 7. Ethos 9. Defence
Never neglect any symptom in any patient
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry : RADIOLOGY Here is an example, male patient aged about 35 years agriculturist came to radiology department to get his head scan as he was having severe headache. He did not have any referral letter for scan so I told him to get reference letter from […]
SELFITIS
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 Selfitis is an unofficial new term used to describe the intense desire to keep taking Selfies all the time. Though Officially Not yet declared a Syndrome per say the ill effects are there for everyone to see. Taking a Selfie is a Simple thing; the problem arises when it […]
Reframe Assumptions: Myths and Facts Mental Retardation
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 ❌ Medicines can cure Mental retardation (MR) ✅ Medicines can only intervene behavioral manifestation of MR and not cure ❌ Cognition and Intelligence signify or mean the same ✅ Both are different and can’t be used interchangeably ❌ IQ means chronological age/mental age (CA/MA100) It is MA/CA100 ✅ […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 “Life is a teacher” Sitting in my consultation room exhausted hoping to have lunch received a call from my son asking ‘”where is the curry, where is my shirt” I told him it’s where about and was thinking how a mother’s life, whoever we are revolves around children. My […]