Homelessness and Mental Illness by Prama Bhattacharya - 9781032662060

Homelessness and Mental IllnessExploring the Lived Experience in India\nAuthor(s): Prama Bhattacharya\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032662060, 978-1032662060\nSynopsis\nThis 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 and empowerment.\n\nUsing theoretical and methodological implications, the volume highlights the experiences of this marginalised population through their voices instead of relying on epidemiological data only. It presents stories that show how such persons celebrate their abilities to tolerate all forms of ostracisation and endure their sufferings with fortitude. This book discusses how hope, as a part of their experience, catalyses the process of .