Ajai R. Singh

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 Technological gadgets become outdated sometimes even before they enter the market.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 […]

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.

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

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

5,00,000 people all over the globe are reported to die of suicide every year. 1,00,000(20%) of them are Indians. Suicides are under-reported by 20-100%. Which means it is more likely 8,00,000 people all over and 1,60,000 in India must be dying of suicide every year (taking mean of 20-100% reporting i.e. 60%). Attempted suicides are

I am writing this letter to express my appreciation of the work you are doing. It is something different form the routine medical articles in India and hence a refreshing and welcome change. N. N. Wig Prof. Emeritus, Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh I congratulate you for writing a very important document. As you know we have been

Abstract Along with political, economic, ethical, rehabilitative and military dimensions, psychopathological sequelae of war and terrorism also deserve our attention. The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre ( W.T.C.) in 2001 and the Gulf War of 1990-91 gave rise to a number of psychiatric disturbances in the population, both adult and children, mainly in

The Fourth Psychiatric Revolution At present, psychiatry is in the midst of a fourth revolution. The first revolution was the so-called Moral Treatment which involved the activism of Phileppe Pinel (1745-1826) and William Tuke (1732-1819), as also the efforts of Dorothea Dix (1802-1887). This resulted in destigmatization of the lunatic label which had earlier meant

Ms. Hema Shah & Dr. L. P. Shah After reading Profile In Courage and noting all his achievements, one may wonder whether he had any time for me. Those who knew him well know that I was the guiding force behind him throughout, and he openly acknowledged it to others. In the year 1962, I joined the