Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing Among Women

by Mahima Nayar

Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing among Women uses vivid ethnographic narratives to study linkages between socio-economic conditions and the mental health of women living in low-income neighbourhoods of big cities. After presenting anthropological insights related to the understanding of madness, mental health and mental illness, the author illustrates how the social position of women and factors inherent in urbanism have an impact...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353281911
• ISBN13: 9789353281915
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"