Cultural factors and religious background influence the reporting of psychopathology in various psychiatric disorders. Like many psychiatric disorders, dissociative trance and possession states display cross-cultural variation. The Indian subcontinent with its bright history and different cultures has a prevalent history of trance and possession syndromes. Possession can be defined as “a state...
Context: Refractory depression is seen in at least 10 to 30 percent of the patients suffering from depression. Ketamine is a new and effective option with rapid onset of action. But there are limited studies where IM Ketamine was used for treating refractory depression. Hence, this study is aimed at assessing the efficacy of IM Ketamine in patients with refractory depressionAims: To assess the...