Brigitte Sebastia2024-11-072024-11-072009https://resourcerepository.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/apurr/694Story of Selvi and Gopalan religious therapeutic route for treatment of mental disorders.The case study explores various pertinent questions pertaining to people with mental disorders and the therapeutic route their family members choose. Besides, it explores when and why religious therapy is chosen for treatment of mental disorders and place of religious therapy. Why people visit therapeutic shrines and reasons for choosing religious therapy. The case study also deliberates upon the practice of Psychiatry and history of various treatment practices for patients with mental disorders involving double treatment combining religious therapy and medicine. It illuminates medical pluralism, stereotyping gender question, religion and science.People with Mental Disorders