title: Women who jump into wells: reflections on suicidality in women from conflict regions of the Indian subcontinent.
abstract: This paper examines narratives of women from the Indian subcontinent, including Canadian refugee claimants, emerging from the conflict regions of Pakistan, Punjab, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, who have presented suicidal ideation or attempts or died by suicide. The focus is on the relationship of suicide and suicide behavior to particular systemic stressors related to familial, social, and group agendas. The vulnerability of individual women is presented in the context of gender issues, deeply embedded group trauma, historical legacies, and intragenerational dynamics, as well as acute stressors that contribute to the underlying distress of these women.
authors: Center for Child Development and Mental Health, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, McGill University, 4335 Cote St Catherine Rd., Montreal H3T 1E4 Quebec, Canada. jaswant@videotron.ca
authors: Jaswant
authors: J
authors: Guzder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D012036:Refugees; D012737:Sex Factors; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000208:ethnology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D014857:Warfare