Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India
Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India
In India, doctors deemphasize diagnoses and the biomedical specificities of what are essentially grave conditions, like schizophrenia. They don’t talk about diagnoses or treat diagnoses as important, at least when interacting with their patients. As a result, they leave many possible ways to imagine the future intact. This may widen the range of possibilities for living in the present. This chapter describes the way two sisters who each meet criteria for schizophrenia understand their problems.
Keywords: Diagnostic neutrality, North India, Psychiatric care, Indian family, Schizophrenia
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