of millions suffer from depression, anxiety, bi-polar and uni-polar disorder and other mental illnesses. This has paved the way for quacks that thrive across the country due to illiteracy.
“As an exponent of mental health, a psychiatrist is therefore a crucial member of a team of professionals trained in mental health advocacy, policy and service development, legislation and regulatory reforms, human and patient rights,” the paper pointed out.
The mental health research does not stop at finding the neuro-genetic basis of diseases of the mind or nanotechnology based personalised medicines and interventions to treat them. It goes on to study the challenges to mental health posed by environmental, socio-economic, cultural, religious, and spiritual dimensions of individuals and societies.
It offers to design interventions for healthier housing designs, progressive and humanistic educational systems and syllabi, and prevention and reversal of childhood adversity, conflict resolution, negotiation skills to prevent war and promote peace and offers to enhance efforts to bring the human fraternity closer to each other, as well as, in harmony with nature and the environment.
Senior consultant psychiatrist at Dr Ziauddin University Hospital, Dr Syed Ali Wasif, concurred. “My argument is that making a client a slave is inappropriate since a psychiatrist has a holistic and humane approach towards his client and it is his social and medical responsibility to educate her/him and impart her/him knowledge according to client’s mental state rather than taxing the client with his consultation fee in thousands of rupees. Painting, art and performing art are very important tools in mental health. So are art therapy, music therapy and psycho drama. These are well recognized forms of psycho therapy. However, it’s true that psychiatry is getting jolts with the development of neurology.”
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