A Monograph Series Devoted To The Understanding Of Medicine, Mental Health, Man, And Their Matrix 

ISSN 0973-1229     

EDITORIAL BOARD

EDITOR                                                            

Ajai R. Singh M.D.   

Psychiatrist. Earlier, Hon. Editor, Psychology and Human
Behaviour Digest, and Senior Research Fellow,
WHO Collaborating Center in Psychopharmacology in India.                           

DEPUTY EDITOR

Shakuntala A. Singh Ph.D.

Principal, Reader and Head, Department of Philosophy, Joshi-
Bedekar College, Thane. Earlier, Fellow, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi.

HONORARY INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

V.N. Bagadia M.D.

Prof Emeritus Psychiatry, Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai University; Past President, Indian Psychiatric Society                 

Narendra N. Wig M.D.

Prof Emeritus Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh; Past President, Indian Psychiatric Society

C. Robert Cloninger M.D.
Head of Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics and Psychology; Director, Center for Psychobiology of Personality, Washington University

K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford M.D.

Department of Philosophy and the Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry; and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.

Robert M. Kaplan Ph.D.
Fred W. and Pamela K Wasserman Professor; Chair, Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health; Editor-in-Chief, Health Psychology

Ruth Chadwick 

Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the ESRC (Economic and Social Sciences Research Council) Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Cardiff University, UK.  Co-edits the journal Bioethics, Chair of the Human Genome Organisation Ethics Committee, Editor-in-chief of the award winning Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (1998). 

Martin Van Der Weyden M.D.

Editor, The Medical Journal of Australia; Chief Executive, Australasian Medical Publishing Company; Member, ICMJE.

John Z. Sadler M.D.

Daniel W. Foster Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern, and Professor of Humanities at UT Dallas; Co-founder (with M.A. Schwartz, E.R. Wallace, and O.P. Wiggins), Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry; Co-Editor, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology and the Oxford University Press book series, “International Perspectives on Philosophy and Psychiatry” 

Sander Gilman Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University; Director of the Program in Psychoanalysis as well as of Emory University's Health Sciences Humanities Initiative

Donelson Dulany Ph.D. 

Professor of Psychology Emeritus, University of Illinois; Editor, American Journal of Psychology

Jerome C. Wakefield Ph.D

University Professor, Professor of Social Work, and Professor of Psychiatry, as well as Affiliate Faculty in Bioethics and in the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University, and Lecturer in Psychiatry (Biometrics Unit) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Sunil Pandya M.S.

Editor Emeritus, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics; Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai

George E. Vaillant M.D. 

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director, Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service

David Healy M.D., FRCPsych. 

Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University; Former Secretary, British Association for Psychopharmacology

Vijoy K. Varma M.D. 

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Prof and Head (Retd.), Dept of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh; Past President, Indian Psychiatric Society

Søren Holm M.D.

Editor in Chief, Journal of Medical Ethics; Professorial Fellow in Bioethics and Director, Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society at the University of Cardiff, UK; Professor of Medical Ethics, Centre for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo, Norway

Helen Herrman M.D.

Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia; Secretary for Publications, World Psychiatric Association, Australia

Lynne Layton Ph.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Editor, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; Associate Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality

James Wright M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Medicine at the University of BC, Vancouver, Canada; Director, High Blood Pressure Clinic, Vancouver Hospital (UBC Site); Managing Director, the Therapeutics Initiative; Editor-in-Chief, The Therapeutics Letter; Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Hypertension Review Group

Anil V. Shah M.D. 

Prof and Head (Retd.), Dept Of Psychiatry, B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Advisor, Mental Health, Gujarat State; Advisor, Mental Health Mission; Past President, Indian Psychiatric Society

Glenn McGee Ph.D.

Founding Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Bioethics; Director, Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI); John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics; Senior Editor for bioethics for The MIT Press; Creator, AJOB Neuroscience

J.K. Trivedi M.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, King George’s Medical University of Lucknow (KGMU); Zonal Representative for Southern Asia - Zone-XVI, World Psychiatric Association; Past Editor, Indian Journal of Psychiatry; Past President, Indian Psychiatric Society

Anirudh K. Kala M.D.

Director, Centre for Psychiatric Treatment and Deaddiction, Ludhiana. Punjab; Founder President, Indian Association of Private Psychiatry; Chairperson, Task Force on Suicide-Prevention, Indian Psychiatric Society; Founder-President, Indo-Pak Punjab Psychiatric Society

Nimesh G. Desai M.D.

Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, and Medical Superintendent, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi, India; Past Editor, Indian Journal of Psychiatry

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BOARD OF PEER REVIEWERS                 

1. Donelson Dulany Ph.D.
2. Joel Lexchin M.D.
3. Anil Shah   M.D.
4. Elizabeth Wager
5. George E. Vaillant  M.D.
6. Ravinder Kapur [Late]  M.D.
7. Samir Malhotra  M.D.
8. Naren Wig  M.D.
9. Alfredo Pereira Jr.  Ph.D.
10. Roy Sugarman  Ph.D.
11. Sadhu Charan Panda  M.D.
12. Morten Hesse  Ph.D.
13. L. Eugene Arnold  M.D.
14. Anirudh Kala  M.D.
15. Chittaranjan Andrade M.D.
16. Vikram Patel  M.D.
17. Ajit V. Bhide  M.D.
18. Vance Berger  Ph.D. 
19. Adamson Muula  M.D.
20. G. Prasad Rao  M.D.
21. J. K. Trivedi  M.D.
22. Col. D.S. Goel  M.D.
23. Sunil Pandya  M.S.
24. Christian Perring  Ph.D.
25. M.T. Gada  M.D.
26. Quresh Maskati  M.S.
27. Madhukar Bandisode  M.D. 
28. Vasiliy V. Vlassov  M.D.
29. Rajendra M. Chokhani  M.D.
30. Thirunavukarasu Manickam   M.D.
31. Anil K. Agarwal  M.D.
32. Param Kulhara   M.D.
33. Ravindra Abhyankar    M.D.             

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