Editors:
- Includes research that combines biological, psychological and sociological perspectives
- Covers areas that are relevant to clinicians and students from both developed and LAMI countries
- Includes recent and contemporary topics that are not often dealt with in text books of psychiatry
Part of the book series: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide (MHIW)
Table of contents (22 entries)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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N Inst. of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Prabha Chandra
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University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Helen Herrman
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Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jane Fisher
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CenterforGenderResearch& Early Detection, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Anita Riecher-Rössler
About the editors
Prabha S.Chandra is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore. Her main research interests have been in the areas of women’s mental health and psychiatric aspects of HIV infection and Cancer. Dr. Chandra has received several awards for her research in women’s mental health and perinatal psychiatry. She has been an executive member of the Marce International society for perinatal psychiatry and is the Secretary of the International Association Women’s Mental Health.
Jane Fisher is Professor of Women’s Health and Director of the Jean Hailes Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. She is an academic Clinical and Health Psychologist with interests in public health perspectives on the links between women’s reproductive health and mental health from adolescence tomid-life, in particular related to fertility, conception, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. She is particularly interested in building evidence about the social determinants of mental health problems including in low and lower-middle income countries.
Helen Herrman is Director of Research at Orygen: The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, and Professor of Psychiatry in the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for mental health in Melbourne. She is President Elect of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), President of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists, and President of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health. From 1992 to 2005, she was Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent’s Health Melbourne during development of an integrated hospital and community area mental health serviceunder Australia’s national reform of mental health care.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mental Health and Illness of Women
Editors: Prabha Chandra, Helen Herrman, Jane Fisher, Anita Riecher-Rössler
Series Title: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0371-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0371-4Due: 01 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2511-8323
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8315
Number of Pages: X, 400
Topics: Psychiatry, Neurosciences, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Behavioral Sciences, Public Health
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Health & Hospitals, Pharma