Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Mental Health Experiences among Vulnerable Groups
About the Book Series
This series builds on the foundations of interdisciplinary approaches to mental health research laid by Frantz Fanon in the 1950s and later by Arthur Kleinman, among other mental health researchers. It highlights and explicates the uncritical use of universalistic categories of psychiatric disorders in silencing much of the experiences of relationally, culturally, and socio-politically generated distress and culturally shaped healing and rehabilitation. Particularly in the contemporary Global South settings, economic globalization has further aggravated (a) deepening of structurally induced distress and (b) commodification of mental health experiences and care. This book series helps bring an emphatic focus on foregrounding silenced voices of mental health experiences among vulnerable sections towards meaningful rehabilitation and culturally situated healing in the Indian setting using critical and qualitative approaches.
Rethinking Disability, Care, and Motherhood: Lived Experiences of Disabled Mothers in India
1st Edition
By Priyasha Choudhary, Shubha Ranganathan
August 22, 2025
This book focuses on the lived realities of disabled mothers to examine how they navigate their multiple competing responsibilities and identities. It reimagines normative constructions of motherhood, dependency, and care while rethinking advocacy and resistance, in the context of disability, ...
Social Suffering and Healing among Migrant Labourers: A Qualitative Study of the Informal Sector
1st Edition
By Sangeeta Yadav
August 22, 2025
The book uncovers the nuances of the lives of unskilled migrant labourers in India. The qualitative approach, along with the social constructivist paradigm and ethnographic fieldwork demonstrates the nature of scientific inquiry carried out in this work. The data analysis methods supporting the ...
Aftermath of 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence: A Transgenerational Trauma-informed Perspective
1st Edition
By Anuja Khanna
July 31, 2025
This book explores the inheritance of trauma, distress, and healing from one generation of survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence to the next. It looks at this dyadic relationship and the post-violence context that is marked by their experience of injustice. The book highlights the psycho-social ...
Homelessness and Mental Illness: Exploring the Lived Experience in India
1st Edition
By Prama Bhattacharya
June 27, 2025
This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental illness in India. It uses a Critical Ethnographic approach to study their lived experiences associated with downward mobilisation and the challenges in the process of recovery ...
Psychology of Accident Victims in India: Explorations in Embodiment, Suffering and Healing
1st Edition
By Deepika Sharma
August 26, 2024
This book traces the psychological journey of accident survivors with locomotor disability, as they move from processes of suffering to healing. It provides a holistic understanding of disability by looking into the embodied understanding of the body as shaped by the socio-political and cultural ...