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I am Shivali Patel, a 27-year-old housewife. Due to the riots, our family has been in the house most of the time. I am unable to understand why these aggressive acts are going on for more than a month. It…

I am Rashmi Kartik, a 30 year old chartered accountant working in a multinational company. Since the past 2 years, I have phases when I am feeling very low. They stay for a period ranging from hours to 2 days…

This is a continuation of the previous two articles about the guidelines for parent counseling.  Often it happens that parents find themselves ambivalent about how to interact with the child. They end up either scolding the child for their own…

Last week we looked at Valmik’s parents who need advice regarding parent couselling. We looked at some of the fundamentals of parent-child interactions. Some more basics are narrated here.  The love that a parent has for a child is that…

My son Valmik, 7 years old, studies in the 2nd standard in an English medium school. In the school, they had arranged for a parent-counseling seminar. In the seminar, I found that most parents were like me, very unclear about…

In the wake of the recent horrors of the riots and looting in Gujarat, this article is written to give an insight into mob psychology.  It is a very surprising fact that under the mob condition, an individual whom you…

I am Yashwardan Goel, a 43-year-old cloth businessman. My son Shyamal, 21 years old, has been experimenting with a variety of drugs since the last 1 year. It started out with smoking cigarettes, then he had alcohol and yesterday he was…

I am Rishi, a 29-year-old businessman suffering from headaches since the last 4 years. Inspite of taking numerous medicines, I have been unable to be symptom free for a longer duration. I have been advised to undergo hypnosis for this…

Last week we looked at the problem that Saumya had because of a severe conscience and constriction by family values. She has clearly split herself into two different personalities. As a result, outside her home, where the drives take precedence…

I am Saumya, a 25-year-old modern Indian girl. My family is a very orthodox Indian family where the boy child is given preference over the girl child. As both of my parents attend to the shop, I am supposed to…