Lakshmi is a mental health researcher and practitioner with a PhD from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Currently, she is Director, Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, and Director of Research, The Banyan.
The paradox at the intersection of work and mental health is that our world today exemplifies working conditions that undermine people’s psychological wellbeing, while simultaneously excluding millions of people with psychosocial disabilities from occupational roles.
The Banyan collaborated on this mental health special issue. Through these stories, we hope to spark conversations in drawing rooms across India that reflect on mental health experiences in all their diversity.
Instead of environments where adolescents are treated as emerging contemporaries with opportunities for diverse exposure and relationships, modern adolescence frequently involves infantilisation coupled with segregation into age-specific subcultures divorced from meaningful adult interaction or participation in social production and governance
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