Ep. 2: Mental Asylums, IQ tests, and the White Man's Burden

12/11/2024 27 min

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Episode Synopsis

Join Yashpreet and Rasika as they go down a rabbit hole about psychology in colonial India, comparing mental asylums to multinational corporations, and unpacking how British IQ tests wronged Indian kids.



References:
1. A paper on the history of psychiatry, includes lunatic asylums, snippets from their database: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X0101204803

2. A research article about the Indian version of the Children’s Apperception Test: https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1960.9922035

3. Department of Integrative Medicine at NIMHANS: https://nimhans.ac.in/im/

4. A research article on 19th century lunatic asylums in India https://www.jstor.org/stable/44147555