Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India’s leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-physician interactions alongside interviews with psychiatrists and neurologists. It explores how patterns of psychosocial causation, shaped by modernity's pressures, frame key questions in psychiatric practice. With hundreds of patients visiting NIMHANS’ outpatient department daily, time constrain