Intimacy and Alcoholism Rethinking Resilience in the Families of Alcoholic Men: Case Study from Public Health Perspective

Sanjoy Roy^1* & Qasim Masumi²

¹Associate Professor and Director, Field Work & Placement, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, India
²Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

Dr. Sanjoy Roy, Associate Professor and Director, Field Work & Placement, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, India.

Keywords: Intimate Partner; Alcoholism; Re-settlement Colony; Partner Violence

Abstract

This paper focuses on the problems faced by the intimate partner of the ones who are into alcoholism in the re-settlement colony at Dakshinpuri, Delhi, India. In this paper two case studies are taken up; one of them being middle aged woman and the other being in her early thirties and the problems are outlined. Basically intimate partner violence can be on a man or woman both but here in this particular context it is the women who are the victims of intimate partner violence.

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