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Role of Memoirs in Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness in India

Vol. 58, Issue No. 23, 10 Jun, 2023
Ann Treessa Benny

How reading about mental illness in the form of memoirs encourages us to reimagine our understanding and get past the popular stigmatised depictions of mental illness in India is explored in this article. This information can come to the aid of medical enthusiasts, psychologists, psychoanalysts, and even educators in considering the subjective dimensions of the experience of mental illness apart from the results of scientific inquiry and reducing the stigma of mental illness in India.

Discourses around Stigma and Denial in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vol. 57, Issue No. 4, 22 Jan, 2022
S Krithi, Kalpana Karunakaran, J Jeyalydia, R Parthesarathy, T Sundararaman

A widespread but underexplored aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has been the prevalence of stigma and denial at different levels in the community mediated by state policy and actions. Based on a field study in three districts of Tamil Nadu between the two waves of the pandemic, this article explores the nature of stigma and denial and their consequence for health-seeking behaviour and access to healthcare. This is important not just to prevent further suffering of the affected people but also for formulation of more effective and equitable public health interventions in management of the pandemic.

Disease, Stigma and a Culture of Profanity

Vol. 56, Issue No. 10, 06 Mar, 2021
Asrarul Haque Jeelani

Rooted in the stigmatisation of disease, our culture of profanity has wide-ranging social ramifications, including the potential to incite violence.

Baluta and Joothan amid Humiliation

Vol. 51, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2016
Purnachandra Naik

Self-expression in the form of autobiographies by Dalits endeavours to expose the hierarchical sociocultural space that subjugates Dalits to the margins, in the literal as well as metaphorical sense. As injustice and violence are endemic in Dalit life, contestation and confrontation are synchronous in the Dalits' response to the same.

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