The Ph.D. onward…

Though the degree, with a convocation etc is due, (or maybe it would be online like the rest of the submission) the doctoral degree was earned in 2020 itself (26th October 2020). And now comes the post-doctoral life. It means not necessarily a post-doctorate but life after the doctorate in which one has to re-write …

PhD- submission and onward

Thank goodness it is over and submitted (on 6th July 2020). The last bit was a bit tedious and unnecessarily prolonged by the university. Anyhow one needs a breather and I hope to get mine. Yesterday I also sent the hard copy to the university. I took less than four years to wind up the …

6th Nov 1992

The date above will remain significant for long, until memory fades, if ever. I was 20 then. The footsteps of winter had begun to descend and it was the last year of college. Or nearly so! It turned out to be the day my life would be changed forever. I stood in the college auditorium …

Mike Oliver

I have been reading the writing of Mike Oliver for at least a few years now. If there is anyone in disability whose work has had deep impact on me, it is him. Time and again I find myself going back to his writings and referring and using some of this principles and ideas in …

The idea of recovery in an interview

This is my first public interview, in which I spoke about recovery and why it is a justice issue, more than the right for people to get mental health treatment. It aired on the occasion of the World Mental Health Day, this year- 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDYF6zF39I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3co6NOgcCRuCoEfHvYMZdXL8RdKNqnEWGLw3nnuctJ5y8ioFQxbT7gSLA My interview in Hindi, whose title is somewhat misleading for …

Journal of Ethics in Mental Health- some thoughts about the special issue

Finally the special issue of the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health (JEMH) is released by the McMaster University in Canada. The whole process has lasted over two years, for we began in April 2017- when I was still in the midst of collecting my empirical data- narratives of people with lived experiences of mental …

The writing in the public domain, 2019

The writing for 2019, at least the formal writing that I will be putting out in the public domain is all done by now. No more phew! One could heave a sigh of relief, because it did put me through sudden pressurse. Some things were written in the greatest hurry and one or two which …

The last note of 2018

Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash Like everything good or bad, this year comes to a close. Time to look back and quickly recap whatever has gone by. Lot of work in fact...so much so, it left little time to make blog entries on any blog. But being my recovery blog, I will stick to the doctoral research issues …

Does Mental illness exist?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Riet8REzsQ Szasz is one of the most important figure in critiquing psychiatry as a psychiatrist- the first among psychiatrists. No work in critical psychiatry can be completed without referring to him. I found this video by chance, and its worth sharing.

My Emerging Voice

I was reading some very nice stuff (like this one, and this one, and  of course this) , and I thought its important to take note of how much I am enjoying doing the stuff I am doing at present. Of course the challenge is how to manage and I cannot say at this stage …