Info
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai on Mental Health, Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Society How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?...
show more
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai on Mental Health, Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Society
How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai is an Indian psychiatrist and public mental health specialist with more than four decades of clinical, academic, institutional, and policy experience. Formerly Director of the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, he has worked at NIMHANS and AIIMS. His career has included contributions to mental health services, psychiatric education, substance-use policy, human rights, multidisciplinary care, and debates concerning biological, social, and cultural approaches to psychiatry.
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Dr. Nimesh G. Desai, and Dr. Aninda Sidhana discuss mental health as a medical, social, cultural, and humanistic concern. They examine psychiatric diagnosis, biological research, biomarkers, psychopharmacology, multidisciplinary care, human rights, cultural differences, and the risks of over-psychiatrization. Desai emphasizes care, humility in science, diagnostic restraint, and integrating biological and psychosocial perspectives, while Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentality, and humane treatment.
show less
How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai is an Indian psychiatrist and public mental health specialist with more than four decades of clinical, academic, institutional, and policy experience. Formerly Director of the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, he has worked at NIMHANS and AIIMS. His career has included contributions to mental health services, psychiatric education, substance-use policy, human rights, multidisciplinary care, and debates concerning biological, social, and cultural approaches to psychiatry.
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Dr. Nimesh G. Desai, and Dr. Aninda Sidhana discuss mental health as a medical, social, cultural, and humanistic concern. They examine psychiatric diagnosis, biological research, biomarkers, psychopharmacology, multidisciplinary care, human rights, cultural differences, and the risks of over-psychiatrization. Desai emphasizes care, humility in science, diagnostic restraint, and integrating biological and psychosocial perspectives, while Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentality, and humane treatment.
Episodes & Posts
Episodes
Posts
Transcribed
14 OCT 2026 · 🎙️ THE LISTENING COMMONS
Guest: Praver Awal
Identity: Media & Entertainment Executive • Content Leader • Storyteller
Hosts: Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Dr. Aninda Sidhana
39 Hours. 9 Days. One Extraordinary Comeback.
Some stories are not simply about surviving. They are about what happens after survival—when the crisis is over, but life asks you to rebuild your body, your work, your relationships, and perhaps your understanding of who you are.
In this deeply personal episode of The Listening Commons, Praver Awal shares the story of a life-threatening medical crisis and the extraordinary road back.
But Praver 2.0 is not only a survival story.
It is a conversation about the people who stay when everything changes; the role of family in recovery; the vulnerability hidden behind professional success; and what happens when a person accustomed to leading, creating and delivering suddenly has to surrender control and learn to live differently.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Dr. Aninda Sidhana explore the questions beneath the comeback: What does a brush with mortality teach us about mattering? What survives when our familiar identities are stripped away? How does recovery change ambition? And can a second chance become something more meaningful than simply returning to the life we had before?
From crisis to recovery, from vulnerability to purpose, this is Praver 2.0.
More than a survival story. A human story.
The Listening Commons
Real People. Real Conversations. A Kinder World.
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai on Mental Health, Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Society How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?...
show more
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai on Mental Health, Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Society
How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai is an Indian psychiatrist and public mental health specialist with more than four decades of clinical, academic, institutional, and policy experience. Formerly Director of the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, he has worked at NIMHANS and AIIMS. His career has included contributions to mental health services, psychiatric education, substance-use policy, human rights, multidisciplinary care, and debates concerning biological, social, and cultural approaches to psychiatry.
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Dr. Nimesh G. Desai, and Dr. Aninda Sidhana discuss mental health as a medical, social, cultural, and humanistic concern. They examine psychiatric diagnosis, biological research, biomarkers, psychopharmacology, multidisciplinary care, human rights, cultural differences, and the risks of over-psychiatrization. Desai emphasizes care, humility in science, diagnostic restraint, and integrating biological and psychosocial perspectives, while Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentality, and humane treatment.
show less
How does Dr. Nimesh G. Desai understand the relationship Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentalitygical science, and society?
Dr. Nimesh G. Desai is an Indian psychiatrist and public mental health specialist with more than four decades of clinical, academic, institutional, and policy experience. Formerly Director of the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, he has worked at NIMHANS and AIIMS. His career has included contributions to mental health services, psychiatric education, substance-use policy, human rights, multidisciplinary care, and debates concerning biological, social, and cultural approaches to psychiatry.
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Dr. Nimesh G. Desai, and Dr. Aninda Sidhana discuss mental health as a medical, social, cultural, and humanistic concern. They examine psychiatric diagnosis, biological research, biomarkers, psychopharmacology, multidisciplinary care, human rights, cultural differences, and the risks of over-psychiatrization. Desai emphasizes care, humility in science, diagnostic restraint, and integrating biological and psychosocial perspectives, while Siddhanath reflects on listening, prevention, non-judgmentality, and humane treatment.
Information
| Author | Dr aninda Sidhana |
| Organization | Dr aninda Sidhana |
| Categories | Mental Health |
| Website | - |
| - |
Copyright 2026 - Spreaker Inc. an iHeartMedia Company
