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18 Jan

Posted at 18:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

January 18, 2011 If you need a pick-me-up today, something to inspire you, maybe this will do the trick: Ishita Sanyal is founder of the Calcutta-based grassroots mental health group, Turning Point, and an avid promoter and proselytizer on behalf of a social therapeutic approach to mental health. On a subcontinent where...

31 Oct

Posted at 23:44h in Social Therapeutics

Ishita Sanyel, founder of one of the first and most innovative centers in India for people with mental illness, has begun training colleague in social therapy. Her organization, an NGO in Calcutta, is called Turning Point. Ishital is a clinical psychologist and graduate of the East Side Institute’s 2007-2008 International...