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Debating Gender, Psychiatry, and Traditional Healing Debating Gender, Psychiatry, and Traditional Healing
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Erwadi in the Media Erwadi in the Media
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Legal Actions following Erwadi Legal Actions following Erwadi
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Mental Health Policy: A Gender Critique Mental Health Policy: A Gender Critique
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Women’s Rights and Human Rights: An International Policy Perspective Women’s Rights and Human Rights: An International Policy Perspective
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8 Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and the State: Reconfiguring Gender and Mental Health Concerns in India
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Published:July 2015
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the paradoxes that the state is caught in, offering ‘modern’ care through the mental hospitals, with their obsolete designs, while phasing out indigenous healing systems. It builds on the claim that women do choose indigenous healing systems. It compares the two systems of care from the point of view of women, and links it up with debates within feminism. It shows the role of the state in its unquestioning support to psychiatry, presenting it as the only legitimate choice in addressing mental health needs of the population. The chapter focuses on implications of a transitioning mental health policy scenario post-Erwadi for the mental health needs of Indian women. It concludes by reiterating the urgent need to foreground women’s mental health seeking strategies and their choices as a crucial factor in formulating future mental health policy in the country. It highlights the possibility of choice in seeking traditional healing sites for emotional well being.
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