Professor Carstairs is best known in India for his study of personality formation in a traditional Hindu society—The Twice Born. That study dealt with the social determinants of a ‘normal’ personality and relied mostly on an imaginative use of the clinical method, most of the evidence being essentially anecdotal. This study, co-authored with an Indian psychiatrist, Professor R.L. Kapur of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bangalore, is rather different.
Mental Health in Rural India
Nitin Desai
THE GREAT UNIVERSE OF KOTA: STRESS, CHANGE AND MENTAL DISORDER IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE By G.M. Carstairs and R.L. Kapur by G.M. Carstairs and R.L. Kapur The Hogarth Press, 1977, 176 pp., 95.00
July-August 1977, volume 2, No 4