Across the Borders
Across the Borders A comparative study of Mental Health Care in Saint John, and in DehraDun. Contents 1. Introduction 1 Part One 2. Health Care Canada 4 3. The current Mental Health Care ‘System’ in New Brunswick 5 4. Mental Health Saint John 8 5. Historical development/foundations of Mental Health Care in Saint John 16 6. Centracare 17 7. Centracare changes its form 24 8. The history of the Mental Health Department Saint John 29 9. Current situation of Mental Health Care in Saint John 30 Part Two 10. Mental Health Care in DehraDun 34 11. The Official Position 34 12. Non-Governmental Health Care 37 13. Raphael: Ryder Cheshire International Centre 38 14. Karuna Vihar 48 15. Psychiatrists and General Physicians 54 16. Alternative Mental Health Approaches 57 17. The Ayurvedic System 60 18. An Analysis 62 19. In Conclusion 64 Page 1 Madness, insanity, mental disability, mental divergence, irrationality, possessions, cuckoo, nuts, mentally disturbed, lost, mystics, extremely godly, wizards, witches, ‘pagal’ are the phrases that different localities in the world have used to provide dissimilar names for similar phenomenon. These names, vastly divergent in their conceived meanings, are based upon the cultural and historical beliefs that dominate the mindset of the people living in the areas. Even within a particular social order people prescribe to divergent belief systems. This divergence within a society is also found to exist within the field of mental health. Due to these various, and conflicting belief systems, a mental condition of a particular individual can be looked upon in many different ways.
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