Sudarshan R Kottai

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Sudarshan R Kottai teaches in the department of psychology, Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Bangaluru, India. A clinical psychologist and a recent PhD graduate, Sudarshan’s doctoral thesis titled An Ethnographic Study of Community Mental Health in Contemporary India: Interrogating ‘Care’, ‘Chronicity’ and Expansion of Patienthood revolves around everyday narratives and practices of mental health care and chronicity that are constructed by official discourses of state and bio-medicine. His doctoral work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies on Health and Illness, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Economic and Political Weekly. His broad interests lie in psychotherapies with minority clients, mental health in the context of gender, disabilities and sexualities, and intersections in mental health from a multidisciplinary perspective.