Abstract
The Movement for Global Mental Health has defined the person suffering
psychopathology in low-income countries as an abused and suffering
subject in need of saving by biomedical psychiatry. Based on fieldwork in
Kerala, South India, carried out at psychiatric clinics and a psychosocial
rehabilitation centre, this paper examines patients’ experiences of illness,
the degree and quality of family support, and attributions made to the
role of ‘sneham’, or love, in recovery. The role of love and family involvement
may help explain the provocative finding by WHO epidemiological
studies that ‘developing’ countries – and India in particular – showed
better rates of recovery from severe mental illness when compared to
developed countries.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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4 articles.
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