Women and depression [electronic resource] / editor, Iffat Hussain.

ISBN:

9781443821148

9781443822114

Title:

Women and depression [electronic resource] / editor, Iffat Hussain.

Author:

Hussain, Iffat.

Publication Information:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Contents:

Showing one's sadness in a visual context: providing a sense of community and support for depressed women through video interviews / The role of community-based groups in the prevention of and recovery from postnatal depression / Overcoming depression and female learned helplessness through hypnotherapy / Dru yoga: from depression to self-empowerment / Childhood sexual abuse and depression: connections, theories and practice implications within the primary care setting / Depression in African women / Forced Muslim religious seclusion and veiling for women and depression / Multiple loss and grief, with underlying factors: a case study / Depression in female spinal cord injured patients: the experience of loss / "Porphyria makes me depressed" / The missing link: women, depression and midlife transition / Psychiatry and the depressed woman

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Subject Term:

Depression in women.

Depression in women -- Social aspects.

Depression, Mental -- Religious aspects.

Depressive Disorder.

Women's Health.

Added Author:

Hussain, Iffat.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

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Summary

Women and Depression is a multidisciplinary book. It is a collection of research papers and essays from authors in the fields of sociology, public health, psychology and psychiatry. It presents further interdisciplinary views on women and depression. The authors have communicated their professional experience, information and knowledge, integrating the latest information about women and depression. The chapters explore different aspects of women and depression, for example, how the community, social, and religious aspects play their roles in developing or fighting depression among women. In some chapters authors have shared their personal experiences, and their friends' experiences, which caused depression. Other chapters include medical points that lead to depression in women whereas some chapters explore the healing power of self-help such as yoga and meditation. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of depression which is so common among women. It provides an insight from a wide variety of professionals and people outside the medical field. The essays are not purely medically based: the book is also intended to be accessible for those outside the medical field including patients with depression, their families and friends, and all those who are interested in this condition.

Author Notes

Iffat Hussain is the author of Problems of Working Women in Karachi, Pakistan. She holds double Masters in Physiology and International Services Management. She has a history of working in research and with UNICEF. Dr. Hussain volunteered to educate the local doctors of the Sindh Province, Pakistan, to improve the health of women and children. She is also a freelance writer.