Mental Health
Interview: Anjali Gopalan
A photo of Anjali Gopalan, who has short black and gray hair and dark eyes. Anjali is smiling, wearing a light pink dupatta.
By Anisha Dutt
December 1, 2013
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
Last week, I was at The Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia organised…
By Vizla Kumaresan
Interview: Sadhana Vohra On Building Joyful Lives From A Sense of Connection With Other Humans
Sadhana Vohra is a psychotherapist in private practice in New Delhi, India. She divides her time between long hours at…
By Radhika Chandiramani
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
The rabbit and the monster is a story about a baby rabbit all alone in a jungle trying to escape…
By Shikha Aleya
Forced into illness!
For long, a major section of our population considered people belonging to sexual ‘minorities’ as being mentally ill. They believed…
By Almas Shamim
April 1, 2015
Bridging the Gap: Ideas for a More Inclusive Sexuality Education Programme
A 22-year-old autistic young man with low intellectual functioning I work with, recently got into trouble with the police because…
By Ankita Khanna
Equality of Sex In a Relationship
“At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to…
By Sonal Sood
April 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Sigmund Freud on Homosexuality
[slideshow_deploy id=’5774′] The most common jab taken at someone who is not heteronormative is that they are insane, and need…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2015
Finding Hope At The Other End Of The Line: Stories from AASRA’s Helpline For Suicide Prevention
I run an NGO called AASRA, a 24×7 crisis intervention center for the depressed and suicidal. Day in and day…
By Johnson Thomas
The Invisible Feminism in Freud?
Should it have been a full stop or a question mark that finished the above title? It deeply confused me….
By Tanisha Chadha
April 15, 2015
From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone
We don’t have an original I-Column this month. Instead we feature the voices of two women, Deepika Padukone and Reshma…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
‘बीमार’ होने को विवश
लम्बे समय तक, हमारे समाज के एक बड़े हिस्से द्वारा यौनिक ‘अल्पसंख्यकों’ को मानसिक रोगी माना जाता था। यह माना…
By Almas Shamim
April 15, 2015
How I live ‒ and try to die ‒ with schizophrenia
The following is an excerpt from Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist by Reshma Valliappan. This was first excerpted…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
The Editorial: Mental Health and Sexuality
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you…
By TARSHI
April 15, 2015
Sexual Healing with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Sex and sexuality are taboo subjects and not openly discussed. Yet, it is only when the sperm and egg fuse…
By Rangana Rupavi Choudhuri
April 22, 2015