Ajita Chakraborty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3927418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ajita Chakraborty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ajita |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakraborty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABORTY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Stress and Mental Health: A Social-Psychiatric Field Study of Calcutta
The immense stress that the people of Calcutta suffer as a result of overpopulation, migration, economic hardships, changing life styles and social structure is explored in this study. Depressive neuroses were found to be much more common - particularly among poor women - in Calcutta than in other Indian cities. However, the unique resilience of family systems was found to prevent Calcuttans having a 'culture of poverty
Pagalami: Ethnopsychiatric knowledge in Bengal
Abstracts and Reviews: 10 News and Views
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : SAINTS, SCHOLARS AND SCHIZOPHRENICS-MADNESS AND BADNESS IN WESTERN IRELAND by NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES. Medical Anthropology. 2 (1978) : 59-93. CULTURAL FACTORS IN IRISH PSYCHIATRY. by H. WARNES. Typescript, 14 pp
Abstracts and Reviews: 10 News and Views
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : SAINTS, SCHOLARS AND SCHIZOPHRENICS-MADNESS AND BADNESS IN WESTERN IRELAND by NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES. Medical Anthropology. 2 (1978) : 59-93. CULTURAL FACTORS IN IRISH PSYCHIATRY. by H. WARNES. Typescript, 14 pp
Pagalami: Ethnopsychiatric knowledge in Bengal
Social Stress and Mental Health: A Social-Psychiatric Field Study of Calcutta
The immense stress that the people of Calcutta suffer as a result of overpopulation, migration, economic hardships, changing life styles and social structure is explored in this study. Depressive neuroses were found to be much more common - particularly among poor women - in Calcutta than in other Indian cities. However, the unique resilience of family systems was found to prevent Calcuttans having a 'culture of poverty
Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · BENGAL (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Cultural anthropology (1 works) · Field (mathematics (1 works)