Sugandh Gupta
Sugandh Gupta is an Indian-born sociocultural medical anthropologist and a psychologist who is interested in critically studying mental health institutions, policies, and client-clinician experiences. Her current project explores the impacts of long-term militarization and political conflict on injecting drug users, mental health professionals, and government programs that seek to rehabilitate drug users in Jammu City, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the South Asia Institute at Columbia University, and various departments and centers of UNC-CH, amongst others. Apart from extensive training in ethnographic research, she has nearly ten years of professional experience as an independent researcher, psychologist, and consultant.
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Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and scholars to share personal experiences and emotional challenges and its impact on the well-being and safety of both the researcher and our interlocutors. Jammu City in the […]
