A Monongraph Series Devoted To The Understanding of Medicine, Mental Health, Mind , Man And Their Maxtrix
Abstract A lot of Indian research is replicative in nature. This is because originality is at a premium here and mediocrity is in great demand. But replication has its merit as well because it helps in corroboration. And that is the bedrock on which many a fancied scientific hypothesis or theory stands, or falls. However, […]
The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I am looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. – Robert M. Pirsig* There is an original and there is a copy. The copy can never achieve the status of an original. This is true not only of the arts, but of research
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The Mens Sana Monographs are excellent, novel and with a different presentation from a new angle. I congratulate both of you for taking pains and making all the efforts to bring out such useful and informative monographs. – Dr. Indla Ramasubba Reddy* M.D. (Psych), D.P.M (NIMHANS), F.I.P.S. Psychiatrist, Vijayawada – President, IPS South Zone (1999-2000) –
Abstract Most clinicians and researchers are concerned with recent advances in psychiatry. This involves the danger whether something time-tested may get sidelined for extra-scientific reasons. That the pharmaceutical industry and superspecialist researcher may keep churning out new findings to impress audiences is only a partial truth. Research progresses by refutation and self-correction. Acceptance in science
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Fashions come and go. Filmstars have their hey days and sink into oblivion. Technological gadgets become outdated sometimes even before they enter the market. Everyone wants the latest in TVs, computers, mobiles, cars, household appliances, industrial machinery, the works. We want to hear the latest news. Nobody prefers to read yesterday’s newspaper today out of
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Fashions come and go. Filmstars have their hey days and sink into oblivion. Technological gadgets become outdated sometimes even before they enter the market. Everyone wants the latest in TVs, computers, mobiles, cars, household appliances, industrial machinery, the works. We want to hear the latest news. Nobody prefers to read yesterday’s newspaper today out of
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2) Suicide Rates Under-reported (In a communication, Prof. K. S. Jacob, M.D., Ph.D., Prof. of Psychiatry, Chris-tian Medical College, Vellore, shares the findings of their interesting rural study us-ing verbal autopsies conducted between 1994-9 as a collaborative study between their Dept. of Community Health and Dept. of Psychiatry. This was published in BMJ, Vol. 326,
I give below a few examples : Jñaneshwara, at the age of 22, entered Samadhi; Manek Prabhu, at the age of 40, did likewise; Raghavendra Swami, at the age of 71, entered Vrindavan; (Vaishnava equivalent of Samadhi); Vadiraja Swami, at age of 120, entered Vrindavan. There may be many more. They were all yogis and used to be in Asamprajñata Samadhi.
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There are two serious, though well intentioned, charges on suicide prevention which deserve our equally serious consideration: Whatever we do, the rate of suicide in a particular society will remain fairly constant (Durkheim, 1952). Suicide is disturbingly ubiquitous and universal – across cultures and ages. Psychiatry does not seem (yet) to fare better than the
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Abstract Suicide is amongst the top ten causes of death for all age groups in most countries of the world. It is the second most important cause of death in the younger age group (15-19 yrs.) , second only to vehicular accidents.Attempted suicides are ten times the successful suicide figures, and 1-2% attempted suicides become
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