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Bhargavi Davar was a noted mental health activist in India. She managed trustee of The Bapu Trust, an organisation that was founded in 1999 dedicated to the research and activism of mental health issues. She has written numerous articles in medical journals.

Bibliography

• Mental Health from a Gender Perspective (2001, SAGE Publications)
• Psychoanalysis as a Human Science: Beyond Foundationalism (1995, co-authored by Parameshwar R Bhat, SAGE Publications)
• Mental Health of Indian Women (1999, SAGE Publications)
• Depression and the Use of Natural Healing Methods (2007). In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (Eds.), Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry (pp. 83–90). Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9545428-1-8 (UK), ISBN 978-0-9788399-1-8 (USA). (E-Book in 2021.)
• Depressionen und die Anwendung natürlicher Heilmethoden (2007). In: Peter Lehmann / Peter Stastny (Eds.): Statt Psychiatrie 2, Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury: Antipsychiatrieverlag, S. 83–92. ISBN 978-3-925931-38-3 (E-Book in 2021)
• Shodh: Psychiatry pallikadill vatancha (2019), co-edited with Peter Lehmann & Peter Stastny), Pune: BAPU Trust for Research on Mind & Discourse, ISBN 978-81-941730-5-2

References

1. articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-02/pune/29841875_1_limited-guardianship-persons-draft-bill
2. "We are inhuman to the mentally ill". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
3. "Family and social support can help schizophrenics fight affliction". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
4. "Bhargavi Davar - PubMed - NCBI". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

External links

• Bhargavi Davar talks about Mental Health Regulations
• Bhargavi Davar's article in Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

v t e Mental health and healthcare in India
Psychiatric hospitals and other in-patient units	Antara Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi Institute of Mental Health, Amritsar Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research State Mental Health Institute Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro and Allied Sciences Yerwada Mental Hospital
Non-governmental organizations	AASRA The Alternative Story The Banyan Lifeline Foundation The Live Love Laugh Foundation Schizophrenia Research Foundation Vandrevala Foundation
Mental health professional associations	Indian Psychiatric Society Indian Association of Private Psychiatry Indian Association of Clinical Psychology National Academy of Psychology
Mental health journals	Indian Journal of Psychiatry Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Mens Sana Monographs
Key people	H. Narayan Murthy Radhika Chandiramani Bhargavi Davar Vikram Patel Anirudh Kala Alok Sarin Indira Sharma Shekhar Seshadri Girindrasekhar Bose M. Sarada Menon
Controversy & criticism	Erwadi fire incident Political abuse of psychiatry in India

• Indian medical writers
• Mental health activists
• Indian women science writers
• Living people
• Indian health activists