This far today was my best day. The girls that I am
interning with are awesome. I really liked them from the first day on. Even
though they all came from the same school and all know each other, they have
all included me into their circle immediately. Today, after we were done with
the internship by 4.30 pm, we went to the main market, shopped around and then
went for some coffee. It was fun and it was awesome to be there with them. They
could tell me about the market, about its history, about the people who shop
there and so on. All this, no other tourist could have told me. We ate things I
have never eaten before, I have bought things I have never owned before, I went
to a coffee shop that was full of local people; this is why I simply loved it.
And the most important thing to mention is that the girls
are from a college that is the only in India that is psychodynamic ally based.
They said that the platform of their teaching is Freud and Marx. Obviously they
also learn other perspectives but this is what they are focusing on for their
masters. They are concerned about the same things I am. For example, most of
the patients who come in are only there for a couple of minutes and simply get
medication prescribed based on a view sentences that they say. They are not
referred for therapy or asked any further questions. I know that I am totally
simplifying this procedure and the system in the hospital is much more
complicated than this but the basic of it is clear and at least we should
question it and the girls do.
Since I was really interested in meditation and yoga as a
therapy, I also talked to the girls about that and what they think about it.
One of the girls said that while in western countries yoga and meditation are
becoming increasingly more prevalent, India seems to be losing those values.
Today, the people who are practicing yoga and meditation is mostly the older
generation, it is not cool for younger people to do that. I found that
interesting to hear, because it seems as if yoga and meditation is becoming so
big in western countries because it is considered to be cool in particular by
the younger generation. However, yoga and meditation is still practiced every
day at the day care section in VIMHANS where I am currently placed at. Every
morning the patients are doing Yoga and meditation; not as a form of therapy
but as an activity. But the hospital also has a separate section that is called
body and mind center where they use meditation and yoga as a form of therapy
and I will hopefully check that out soon.
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