The Lord Buddha destigmatizes mental illness

The authors describe the encounter of Lord Buddha with a greatly mentally disturbed woman named as Patacara (literally in Pali: “the shameless” or “the naked” woman). His reception of her in spite of the dislike of the listeners of his discourse, his explanation of her difficulties, and consolation...

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Autores principales: Somasundaram, Ottilingam, Murthy, Tejus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Miscellany
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5914243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736077
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_293_17
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description The authors describe the encounter of Lord Buddha with a greatly mentally disturbed woman named as Patacara (literally in Pali: “the shameless” or “the naked” woman). His reception of her in spite of the dislike of the listeners of his discourse, his explanation of her difficulties, and consolation are mentioned. Her elevation as one of the great Bhikkunis as “The One with Discipline of the Mind” is an outstanding example of destigmatization of mental illness.
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spelling pubmed-59142432018-05-07 The Lord Buddha destigmatizes mental illness Somasundaram, Ottilingam Murthy, Tejus Indian J Psychiatry Miscellany The authors describe the encounter of Lord Buddha with a greatly mentally disturbed woman named as Patacara (literally in Pali: “the shameless” or “the naked” woman). His reception of her in spite of the dislike of the listeners of his discourse, his explanation of her difficulties, and consolation are mentioned. Her elevation as one of the great Bhikkunis as “The One with Discipline of the Mind” is an outstanding example of destigmatization of mental illness. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5914243/ /pubmed/29736077 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_293_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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