Dr Rima Mukherji, a consultant psychiatrist practising in Calcutta with the Westbank Hospital and Sri Aurobindo Seva Kendra, has been a witness to the sea-change that’s taking place. For a start, her appointments diary is choc-a-bloc. What’s more, people ? who in an earlier decade wouldn’t have been seen dead in a psychiatrist’s office ? are coming to her for all types of different reasons. “In the late ‘90s, I started getting serious psychiatric patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Now the range is much wider,” she says. Adolescent problems, marital matters, eating disorders, sleep disorders and sexuality issues ? these are cases that are increasingly featuring in the psychiatrist’s file. Arundhati Basu The Telegraph Saturday, July 23, 2005
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