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Provides a review of developments in psychiatry in India by recognized experts
Includes a wide range of clinical, research and policy-related topics
The first volume of its kind from India
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- Clinical psychology in India
- Common mental disorders in India
- Counselling in India
- Developments in adult and child psychiatry
- Psychiatry in India
- Psychiatry in primary health care
- Psycho-oncology in India
- Psychometry in India
- Psychosexual disorders in India
- Schizophrenia research in India
- Substance abuse and psychiatry in India
- Training and development in psychiatry
Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Developments in Legal and Educational Aspects
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Savita Malhotra is Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services at the Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Educational and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. She is a recipient of the D.L.N. Murthy Rao Oration Award, Bhagwat Award, PPA 1 Award, Bombay Psychiatric Society Silver Jubilee Year Award of the Indian Psychiatric Society; Tilak Venkoba Rao Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research; and WHO Fellowship in Child Mental Health. She has also received the Dr K.L. Wig Oration Award of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a Life Fellow of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry and of the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Professor Malhotra has been actively involved with several national and international societies and organisations: Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (Past President); Indian Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (Life President); International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (Assistant Secretary General and Adjunct Secretary); Member and Consultant Education Committee of the World Psychiatric Association and Temporary Advisor, World Health Organisation, in the past. She is President Elect of the Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, and Board Member of the Child Psychiatry Section of WPA. She has published over 200 research papers and book chapters and authored/edited several books.
Subho Chakrabarti is Professor of Psychiatry at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Educational and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. He has clinical, teaching and research experience of over 22 years. He has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, U.K., Fellow of the International Society for Affective Disorders, Fellow of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Fellow of the Indian Association of Social Psychiatry and Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India. Professor Chakrabarti has received 15 national and international awards for best paper or best presentation. He is a member of the editorial board of five national and international journals and member of the Expert Working Group on Mood and Anxiety Disorders for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders, WHO, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He has around 170 national and international publications, over 100 of which are indexed in the Index Medicus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developments in Psychiatry in India
Book Subtitle: Clinical, Research and Policy Perspectives
Editors: Savita Malhotra, Subho Chakrabarti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1674-2
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1673-5Published: 03 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2936-0Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1674-2Published: 02 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 636
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Social Work