Mental Health Resilience - The Social Context of Coping With Mental Illness

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Gosselin, Gosselin Abigail
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2024
• EAN: 9781438497815
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9781-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Social, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory