Rehabilitation and Recovery of Women with Mental Illness

Clinical recovery may vary gender-wise across various psychiatric disorders; however, personal recovery is individual specific and a unique process. There are several gender-specific factors that may determine recovery in the context of women with mental

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Prabha S. Chandra · Helen Herrman Jane Fisher · Anita Riecher-Rössler Editors

Mental Health and Illness of Women

Mental Health and Illness Worldwide Series Editors Norman Sartorius Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes (AMH) Geneva, Switzerland Ee Heok Kua Department of Psychological Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore

Most books on mental health and illness are published for readers in North America and Europe, and not much is known about psychiatric practice, services and research in Asia, Africa, and South America. This series will include contributions of clinicians and researchers worldwide. Each volume will cover broad issues including epidemiology, cross-cultural comparison, clinical research, stigma of mental illness, cultural issues in mental healthcare, health economics, innovative services, preventive programs and health service outcome research. The volumes will find a wide readership among psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, health policy makers, social workers, health economists, anthropologists and philosophers. It will provide the readers a broader perspective of mental health and illness worldwide and also future research initiatives. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14178

Prabha S. Chandra • Helen Herrman Jane Fisher • Anita Riecher-Rössler Editors

Mental Health and Illness of Women With 16 Figures and 24 Tables

Editors Prabha S. Chandra Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Bengaluru, India Jane Fisher Global and Women’s Health Unit School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Helen Herrman Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia Anita Riecher-Rössler University of Basel Basel, Switzerland

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