MISA Special Reports

Inside the Battle Between Faith and Psychiatry

Discover the Secrets of India's Balaji Temple

They Spent Thousands on Tests; a Temple Fixed It for Rs. 5

Notes from reporting on faith healing sites in India

The Shocking Link Between Economic Shocks, Poverty, and Depression

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Healing While Tapering Off Psychiatric Medications – An Expert’s Perspective

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WOMAN/PERSON? How Women’s Revolt Against Oppression is Seen as Pathology

The central crisis in many women’s lives is whether to be a woman or a person. In India, when a girl child is born, she is simultaneously a child...

“Mad Stories”: A MiSA Report on Art That Dares to Share Alternative Stories of Madness

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Healing Through Travel: The Power of Places and People

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Psychiatry in South Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated

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