Abstract
Recovery from mental illness has been defined as a unique individual journey through which a person with mental illness would find new meaning and purpose in life despite the illness or its deficits. Rehabilitation has been described as a process in which an individual with deficits due to mental illness or physiological impairments would try to adjust to the limitations caused by deficits and would use remaining strengths to move on in life to lead a life with best possible functioning. In this chapter, we have examined published literature, on the issue of, if the recovery and rehabilitation in women with mental illness are dependent on gender and, if so how? From published literature, it appears that individual interventions which may aid rehabilitation and recovery in women with mental illness may have less relevance on outcomes such as symptom severity. However, there is research to suggest that overall rehabilitation and recovery in women with mental illness is influenced by gender because of associated issues ranging from difficulties in access to treatment, cultural expectations, and roles related to patriarchal cultures.
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