Mental Health Resilience: The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

Author:   Abigail Gosselin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   02 November 2024
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Mental Health Resilience: The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness


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While resilience is traditionally understood as an inner trait that individuals possess inside themselves, Mental Health Resilience argues that resilience should be seen as the product of social factors, where other individuals and institutions provide the resources, opportunities, and support that enable resilience. Resilience is also partly a matter of justice, as people can only be resilient in addressing their vulnerabilities when they are given adequate resources and opportunities, and in just ways. Seen in this light, Abigail Gosselin examines what a person who has mental illness needs to have the resilience required for mental health recovery and for coping with life challenges in general. With its focus on the social and political conditions of resilience, Mental Health Resilience will appeal to fields such as social philosophy, feminist political philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, medical humanities, bioethics, and disability studies.

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Author:   Abigail Gosselin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438497815


ISBN 10:   1438497814
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   02 November 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Enabling Mental Health Resilience 2. Vulnerabilities of Mental Illness 3. Inner Resources 4. Social Support 5. Resources for Meeting People's Needs 6. Resources for Social Justice 7. Opportunities for Meaning Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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""Although Mental Health Resilience is written philosophically, with tight analyses of ideas, it is a book that can and should appeal to a wide general, educated readership. The key contribution is the highly sophisticated way Gosselin shows that individual resilience is impacted by social frameworks that can enable or hinder the capacities for individual resilience to be realized. By applying this account of resilience to the case of mental illness, she has made an important contribution."" — Steve Matthews, Australian Catholic University


"""Although Mental Health Resilience is written philosophically, with tight analyses of ideas, it is a book that can and should appeal to a wide general, educated readership. The key contribution is the highly sophisticated way Gosselin shows that individual resilience is impacted by social frameworks that can enable or hinder the capacities for individual resilience to be realized. By applying this account of resilience to the case of mental illness, she has made an important contribution."" — Steve Matthews, Australian Catholic University"


Author Information

Abigail Gosselin is Professor of Philosophy at Regis University. She is the author of Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient's Perspective and Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction, among other books.

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