Depression

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Notes

1. Sushrut Jadhav, ‘Cultural Origins of Western Depression’, in The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 42, no. 4 (1996), pp. 269–86.

2. In ‘Friendship and Flirting’, Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella describe how in rural Kerala too, bonds of erotic transgression are invoked by an English word, ‘tuning’. Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella, ‘Friendship and Flirting: Micro-Politics in Kerala, South India’, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, no. 2 (1998), pp. 189–206.

3. G.M. Carstairs and R.L. Kapur, The Great Universe of Kota: Stress, Change and Mental Disorder in an Indian Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

4. N.D. Surya, S.P. Datta, R. Gopalakrishnan, D. Sundaram and J. Kutty, ‘Mental Morbidity in Pondicherry’, in Transactions of the All India Institute of Mental Health, Vol. 4, no. 50 (1964), pp. 50–61.

5. Cited in R. Raguram, M.G. Weiss, H. Keval and S.M. Channabasavanna, ‘Cultural Dimensions of Clinical Depression in Bangalore, India’, in Anthropology & Medicine, Vol. 8 (2000), pp. 31–46.

6. Here, I am referring to arguments within clinical psychiatry such as those of Sushrut Jadhav, and less to psychoanalytically derived accounts of the ‘Indian psyche’, famously offered by theorists such as Sudhir Kakar and Ashis Nandy.

7. For a rich account of this trajectory, see Junko Kitanaka, Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).

8. E. Bromet and L.H. Andrade, ‘Global Depression Statistics’, in Science Daily (26 July 2011) [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725202240.htm, accessed 8 Mar. 2017].

9. ‘Indians among the Happiest People in the World’, Businessworld (10 Mar. 2014) [http://reuters.com/article/happiness-poll-idINDEE8190HR20120210, accessed 8 Mar. 2017] .

10. J.L. Chua, In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014); and T. Luhrmann, ‘Is the World More Depressed?’, The New York Times (24 Mar. 2014) [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/opinion/a-great-depression.html?_r=0, accessed 8 Mar. 2017].

11. F. Mantle, ‘Developing a Culture-Specific Tool to Assess Postnatal Depression in the Indian Community’, in British Journal of Community Nursing, Vol. 8 (2003), pp. 176–80.

12. R. Singh, ‘Depression in Ancient Indian Literature’, in Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 17 (1975), p. 148.

13. A. Horwitz and J. Wakefield, The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

14. L.J. Kirmayer, ‘Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World: The Use of Antidepressants in Japan’, in Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 39, no. 3 (2002), pp. 295–322.

15. Sushrut Jadhav, ‘Cultural Origins of Western Depression’, in International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 42, no. 4 (1996), pp. 269–86.

16. Ibid., p. 273.

17. Ashis Nandy, ‘Invitation to an Antique Death: The Journey of Pramathesh Barua as the Origin of the Terribly Effeminate, Maudlin, Self-Destructive Heroes of Indian Cinema’, in R. Dwyer and C. Pinney (eds), Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 139–60.

18. Corey Creekmur, ‘Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Devdas’, in Heidi Paulwels (ed.), Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 173–89.

19. [http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/full-transcript-lets-talk-depression-deepika-padukones-story-748527, accessed 23 June 2015].