A Cry from the Darkness: Women with Severe Mental Illness in India Reveal Their Experiences with Sexual Coercion

Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 323-334

  Chandra, Prabha S ^a   Deepthivarma, S ^a   Carey, Michael P ^b   Carey, Kate B ^b   Shalinianant, M P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; SEXUAL ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COERCION; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RAPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 1642499462     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.66.4.323.25446     Document Type: Article

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