Book Review: Stefan Ecks, Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India

IF 0.9 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychology and Developing Societies Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI:10.1177/0971333617716850

Sudarshan R. Kottai, S. Ranganathan

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Abstract

The dominance of psychiatric practice in India and the relatively obscured homeopathic and Ayurvedic practices are the major issues explicated in Ecks’ Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. Overcoming patients’ resistance to compliance is a major task of the Kolkata psychiatrists interviewed by Ecks, and they sought to deal with this by positing drugs as ‘mind food’. Ayurveda and homeopathy are also gradually sidelining their own philosophies and falling in line with biomedicine with respect to commodification and marketing of drugs. The biopolitics involved in the rising mood disorders in India and the concomitant increase in the prescription of mood medications is evidenced by the propagation of a ‘global monoculture of happiness’ by pharmaceutical companies, who instil the notion that pills have solutions to all social ills.

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书评：Stefan Ecks，《吃药：印度的精神药物多元主义》

Ecks的《吃药：印度的精神药物多元主义》中阐述了印度精神医学实践的主导地位以及相对模糊的顺势疗法和阿育吠陀实践的主要问题。克服患者对依从性的抵抗是Ecks采访的加尔各答精神病学家的一项主要任务，他们试图通过将药物定位为“精神食粮”来解决这一问题。阿育吠陀和顺势疗法也逐渐偏离了自己的哲学，在药物的商品化和营销方面与生物医学保持一致。制药公司传播的“全球单一幸福文化”证明了印度情绪障碍的增加以及情绪药物处方的增加所涉及的生物政治，他们灌输了药物可以解决所有社会弊病的观念。

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Psychology and Developing Societies PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Get a better perspective on the role of psychology in the developing world in Psychology and Developing Societies. This unique journal features a common platform for debate by psychologists from various parts of the world; articles based on alternate paradigms, indigenous concepts, and relevant methods for social policies in developing societies; and the unique socio-cultural and historical experiences of developing countries compared to Euro-American societies.