The Late Psych Show: Desi Edition

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Is therapy a Western fad? Is there more to psychogy than Freud's couch and Skinner's lab? Grab a cup of coffee and join Yashpreet and Rasika as they explore the realities of mental health in India, from government hospitals to YouTube channels, and from research labs to places of worship.

Episodes

  1. 05/09/2025

    Ep.4: 70 Hour Work Week and Other Corporate Crimes

    Join our host as she battles her own fatigue and helplessness while going on a rant every 5 minutes about the politics of sleep and rest. Listen to the journey of humans, from hunter gatherers to LinkedIn clowns, and their changing relationship with work, productivity and leisure. If, by, the end of the episode, you feel even a tiny bit of anger towards the world, congratulate yourself, and proceed to the episode notes for more! Episode notes: Here’s some food for thought for our listeners: 1. The Nap Minstry: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/ 2. The do-nothing competition in Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1K8-ApTC8 3. The story of punkhawallahs: https://scroll.in/article/1028513/amidst-uk-heatwave-a-reminder-of-how-british-colonials-exploited-punkah-walas-in-indias-summers 4. The origin of the Indian Standard Time (IST): https://theprint.in/opinion/the-ist-story-how-indian-railways-and-sardar-patel-helped-synchronise-indias-clocks/2093981/ 5. 24/7 Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/22/24-7-late-capitalism-ends-sleep-jonathan-crary-review 6. People complaining on the internet about other people taking rest: https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/indian-woman-in-dubai-faces-backlash-over-viral-video-criticising-maid-for-slouching-on-sofa-and-chilling-on-phone-646832.html

    21 min

  2. 03/10/2025

    Ep. 3: Therapy, Capitalism and Systemic Band-aids

    Join the host as she attempts to explain why therapy feels hard sometimes, and why mental helth feels like a luxury, and how it helps your boss pretend that they care about your mental health. Episode notes: 1. The Neoliberal Project: Mental Health and Marginality in India https://mhi.org.in/voice/details/neoliberal-project-mental-health-marginality-india/ 2. CBT and Repression in the age of capitalism https://medium.com/@Beyond-A.I./cbt-and-repression-in-the-age-of-capitalism-123110e5751e 3. NHRC Report on the Condition of Mental Healthcare Institutions Across the Country https://nhrc.nic.in/media/press-release/nhrc-says-all-46-government-mental-healthcare-institutions-across-country-depict#:~:text=The%20National%20Human%20Rights%20Commission,handling%20by%20the%20different%20stakeholders Here’s our email ID if you’d like to write to us! thelatepsychshow@gmail.com

    24 min

  3. 11/12/2024

    Ep. 2: Mental Asylums, IQ tests, and the White Man's Burden

    Join Yashpreet and Rasika as they go down a rabbit hole about psychology in colonial India, comparing mental asylums to multinational corporations, and unpacking how British IQ tests wronged Indian kids. References: 1. A paper on the history of psychiatry, includes lunatic asylums, snippets from their database: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X0101204803 2. A research article about the Indian version of the Children’s Apperception Test: https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1960.9922035 3. Department of Integrative Medicine at NIMHANS: https://nimhans.ac.in/im/ 4. A research article on 19th century lunatic asylums in India https://www.jstor.org/stable/44147555

    28 min

  4. 10/09/2024

    Ep. 1: Textbooks, Healers and Ancient Chaos

    Welcome! It’s the first episode of The Late Psych Show: Desi Edition. Do you ever wonder how psychology took roots in India? Was it imported from the West on a cargo ship, or whitewashed like much of our history? Put on your thinking cap, and join us on a fascinating tour of psychology and mental health in India. Feel free to say hi to Buddha, sing with Sufi saints, and shake hands with Greek philosophers along the way! Here are some references and reading suggestions! History of psychiatry in India: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146221/ A reference book on Indian Psychology https://drive.google.com/file/d/19o8fzg4nCTZozejQYpVK-Ytsrwhqy91Y/view?usp=sharing “Regimental therapy” in Unani medicine (interestingly, they also follow some practices like blood letting, which have been long discarded as ineffective in the mainstream medical community) https://ccrum.res.in/Home/Regimental?mid=1448 Psychiatry in Siddha system https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v6MBESpCq7DyACfWzGnw523XgvzjghF7/view?usp=sharing Psychiatry in Ayurveda https://doi.org/10.4103%2F0019-5545.105556 What is erotomania? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359441/ Mental health treatment in the Middle Ages in the West https://courses.lumenlearning.com/waymaker-psychology/chapter/mental-health-treatment-past-and-present/ Bloodletting and other treatments for mental illness in the past https://public.websites.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/madness/cures.html Franz Mesmer and his ‘Mesmerism’ https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychologys-history-of-being-mesmerized#2

    23 min
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Is therapy a Western fad? Is there more to psychogy than Freud's couch and Skinner's lab? Grab a cup of coffee and join Yashpreet and Rasika as they explore the realities of mental health in India, from government hospitals to YouTube channels, and from research labs to places of worship.

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