The Indianization of Colonial Medicine

Ernst, Waltraud

doi:10.1007/s00048-012-0068-7

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“…He decided to study the history of neighboring Indian Mental Asylum (currently known as RINPAS) and Native Mental Hospital in Bangalore (currently known as NIMHANS). [ 14 15 16 17 18 ]…”

Section: Scene 8: “Hydrotherapy” Session and Lt Col Owen Ar Berkeleymentioning

confidence: 99%

Central Institute of Psychiatry: A fictional journey to past in a time machine

Aich

Das

Bhat

2018

Indian J Psychiatry

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“…He decided to study the history of neighboring Indian Mental Asylum (currently known as RINPAS) and Native Mental Hospital in Bangalore (currently known as NIMHANS). [ 14 15 16 17 18 ]…”

Section: Scene 8: “Hydrotherapy” Session and Lt Col Owen Ar Berkeleymentioning

confidence: 99%

Central Institute of Psychiatry: A fictional journey to past in a time machine

Aich

Das

Bhat

2018

Indian J Psychiatry

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“…121 Ernst has recently observed that historians too have been much more fascinated by the development of psychoanalysis in India than by mainstream psychiatry ... all of which is far less exotic in appeal for social and cultural historians than engagement with the role of sexuality, the unconscious mind and mechanisms of repression in regard to individual, cultural and political processes. 122 Historians have so far focused on psychoanalysis, while psychiatry remains a relatively unexplored area. But it should be kept in mind that psychology and psychoanalysis witnessed growth and institutionalisation because they developed outside the control of the colonial state.…”

Section: Professionalisation and Internationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India

Rajpal

2018

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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The history of professionalisation of psychiatry in India is an array of parallel histories. The article describes the variegated processes of professionalisation, modernisation and Indianisation and the impediments that colonialism created in their path. It charts the reification of the professional identity of a psychiatrist which was uniquely different from the Western counterpart. The process that began at the turn of the twentieth century was far from complete even on the eve of independence. It argues that psychiatry remained at the margins of medicine and the colonial state maintained an indifferent attitude towards development of the mental sciences. Highlighting contributions of individual psychiatrists and juxtaposing them with those of the state, this article situates psychiatrists as historical actors and how the emergence of psychiatry was enmeshed with political histories of the period.

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“…In attempting to move beyond nation-centered narratives, a number of studies in this vein explore how psychiatric ideas and practices 'play' or are 'put to use' in different cultural contexts [23][24][25]. In attempting to move beyond nation-centered narratives, a number of studies in this vein explore how psychiatric ideas and practices 'play' or are 'put to use' in different cultural contexts [23][24][25].…”

Section: Colonial and Transcultural Asylumsmentioning

confidence: 99%