Blog 1 – Demystifying Psychiatry: What is the Human Mind?
Nowadays almost everyone in society acts like psychologist. Many people believe that simply taking is the only treatment for mental disorders. While psychotherapy is an effective treatment for many conditions, psychiatry is much massive than that. Each and every mental disorder is unique and require its own assessment and empirical treatment. Through this blog series we are trying to demystify psychiatry. This blog series is inspired by Demystifying Psychiatry by Charles F. Zorumksi and Eugene H. Rubin . I will share what I understand from the book and relate to the Indian context, especially Tamil Nadu, the southern part of India Before diving to psychiatry, one major question what is human mind? and where is located? In Tamil and Malayalam especially, they call mind as “Manasu or Manam or Manas” but when you ask where it is located mostly of them touches the heart and says there it is even, I believed it for long time and most cinema shows that. The truth is heart ...