Srinivasan VenkatesanSrinivasan Venkatesan is Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Psychology, AIISH, Mysore, Karnataka. He has earlier served at NIMH, Secunderabad-Hyderabad. He has authored 26 books, contributed 24 chapters in books, another 35 varieties of techncal literature, and published 135 research papers, served as resource person for workshops for different target groups. He has completed projects through collaboration with national/international agencies, guided students for Ph.D., been on editorial board for journals and peer-reviewed research articles, presented papers in conferences and served as an examiner for adjudication of doctoral theses. Consistently a first class and university rank holder from school to pre-doctoral courses at NIMHANS, Bangalore, 1987; he was awarded the doctorate in 1993. A Fellow of the Society for Advanced Studies in Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in psychiatry, he was decorated with Gold Medal by the former President of India, Sri Giani Zail Singh in 1994; NN Sen Memorial Award for ‘Best Research Paper’ by Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists in 2002; ‘Psycho Oration Award’ in January 2009, and Prof. Anima Sen Memorial Award in 2012. Read More Read Less