Ajai R. Singh

Abstract This paper outlines six important tasks for psychiatry today, which can be put in short as: Spread and scale up services; Talk; Science, Psychotherapy; Integrate; and Research excellence. As an acronym, STSPIR. Spread and scale up services: Spreading mental health services to uncovered areas, and increasing facilities in covered areas: Mental disorders are leading

MSM 2014 is titled: The task before psychiatry today, and other essays. It contains papers on a wide array of topics. Editorials Donelson E. Dulany, PhD. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, USA writes an editorial-cum-commentary: ‘What Explains Consciousness? Or…What Consciousness Explains?’ [pg 11] Symposium A symposium on ‘The task before

Introduction This is a revised brief write-up for MSM authors meant to be a check-list to adhere to in their submissions 2012 onwards. It is based on, but replaces, Template for MSM Submissions (Singh, 2011b2) at http://www.msmonographs.org/article.asp?issn=0973-1229;year=2011;volume=9;issue=1;spage=320;epage=323;aulast=Singh It is a working model for potential authors and not meant to replace detailed Instructions to Contributors which appear elsewhere in

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In continuation with the paper on scientific names giving (Singh, 2011[1]), wherein a plea was made to replace geographical by scientific naming in biomedicine, while continuing with honorific naming, the following proposal is made for consideration by those who have the interests of science at heart. This includes us all, of course, but specifically addresses