Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Tine Holm, Rikke Jensen

Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book elucidates how narrative identity is crucial to understanding mental illness and personal recovery. It analyses over 100 personal stories shared by individuals with mental illness, and provides guidance to facilitate recovery. Useful for mental health researchers and professionals as well as individuals experiencing mental illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830454
• ISBN-10: 1108830455
• Artikelnr.: 64230487

Autorenporträt

Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen is a professor of psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a prominent scholar in narrative identity, which she has studied extensively over the past decade. She has authored more than 60 scienti¿c papers and has received several grants and awards in recognition of her work.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing the book
2. The science of mental illness
3. Vulnerability, stress, and burden in mental illness
4. Recovery and mental illness
5. Narrative identity
6. Narrative identity, illness, and well-being
7. How did we collect and analyze different life stories?
8. Overview of narrative identity themes from the initial analyses
9. Relationship themes in narrative identity
10. Self themes in narrative identity
11. Functional level themes in narrative identity
12. Treatment themes in narrative identity
13. Summary and synthesis
14. Understanding the interplay between narrative identity and mental illness - a framework
15. Tools for narrative repair
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
References
Index.