Situating Disability in Therapy with Renu Addlakha
In this episode we talk to Renu Addlakha about how the pandemic has impacted the intersectional mental health needs of persons with disability and contemplate about its influence on the future of affirmative and inclusive therapy work.
About the Guest:
Renu Addlakha is currently Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-supported autonomous research institute, government of India. She presently is engaged in research on health, disability, gender and development. She has trained in medical anthropology and her areas of specialisation include mental illness and the psychiatric profession, public health systems, bioethics, gender and the family. She has been work on health and disability issues for the past two decades. She has published widely in national and international peer- reviewed journals. Her latest most important publications are Deconstructing mental illness: An ethnography of psychiatry, women and the family (2008 Zubaan Books), Disability and society: A reader (co-edited with Stuart Blume, Patrick J. Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (2009) Orient Blackswan). Contemporary perspectives on disability in India: Exploring the linkages between law, gender and experience.