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SUDARSHAN R KOTTAI

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, O. P. Jindal Global University, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Christ University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-2564-4879
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala. Trained as a clinical psychologist, my doctoral work carried out at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad revolves around everyday narratives and practices of mental health care and chronicity which are constructed by official discourses of state and bio-medicine. Informed by the politics, history and philosophy of psy disciplines, I examine the complexities and ambiguities in the context of increasing metricalisation, technocratisation, globalization and scientifisation of mental health care. I grapple with questions of philosophical interest in mental health care like why mainstream mental health academia/research/ practice primarily engages in “mirroring” the world rather than in “world-making”. My upcoming book to be published by Routledge in 2024 uncovers mental health care practices in India from critical perspectives.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad Assistant Professor
    2023 - Present
  • O. P. Jindal Global University Assistant Professor
    2022 - 2022
  • Christ University Assistant Professor
    2021 - 2022
  • Ahmedabad University Assistant Professor
    2021 - 2021
  • Jain University Assistant Professor
    2020 - 2021
  • Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health Clinical Psychologist
    2014 - 2014

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad RESEARCH STUDENT
    2014 - Present

Projects & Funding

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Publications (11)