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Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

By: Abigail Gosselin

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Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

By: Abigail Gosselin

Global poverty and responsibility -- Duties of beneficence -- Duties of redress -- Duties of institutional justice -- Responsibilities of affluent individuals.

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Lexington Books

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0739122908

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9780739122907

Mental Health Resilience

The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

By: Abigail Gosselin

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Mental Health Resilience

The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

By: Abigail Gosselin

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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357

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State University of New York Press

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1438497822

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Mental Patient

Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective

By: Abigail Gosselin

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Mental Patient

Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective

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A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust. In Mental Patient, philosopher Abigail Gosselin uses her personal experiences with psychosis and the process of recovery to explore often overlooked psychiatric ethics. For many people who struggle with psychosis, she argues, psychosis impairs agency and autonomy. She shows how clinicians can help psychiatric patients regain agency and autonomy through a positive therapeutic relationship characterized by mutual trust. Patients, she says, need to take an active role in regaining their agency and autonomy—specifically, by giving testimony, constructing a narrative of their experience to instill meaning, making choices about treatment, and deciding to show up and participate in life activities. Gosselin examines how psychotic experience is medicalized and describes what it is like to be a patient receiving mental health care treatment. In addition to mutual trust, she says, a productive therapeutic relationship requires the clinician’s empathetic understanding of the patient’s experiences and perspective. She also explains why psychotic patients sometimes feel ambivalent about recovery and struggle to stay committed to it. The psychiatric ethics issues she examines include the development of epistemic agency and credibility, epistemic justice, the use of coercion, therapeutic alliance, the significance of choice, and the taking of responsibility. Mental Patient differs from straightforward memoirs of psychiatric illness in that it analyses philosophic issues related to psychosis and recovery, and it differs from other books on psychiatric ethics in that its analyses are drawn from the author’s first-person experiences as a mental patient.

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MIT Press

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0262371227

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Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

By: Abigail Gosselin

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Global poverty and responsibility -- Duties of beneficence -- Duties of redress -- Duties of institutional justice -- Responsibilities of affluent individuals.

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Mental Patient

Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective

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Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective

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The Fear Factor

How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between

By: Abigail Marsh

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The Fear Factor

How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between

By: Abigail Marsh

In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal). At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, and, she didn't care about the damage she inflicted. A few miles away, Lenny Skutnik was so concerned about the life of a drowning woman that he jumped into the ice-cold river to save her. How could Amber care so little about others' lives, while Lenny cared so much? Abigail Marsh studied the brains of both psychopathic children and extreme altruists and found that the answer lies in our ability to recognize others' fear. And as The Fear Factor argues, by studying people who demonstrate heroic and evil behaviors, we can learn more about how human morality is coded in the brain. A path-breaking read, The Fear Factor is essential for anyone seeking to understand the heights and depths of human nature.

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1541697200

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Book's by Abigail Gosselin

Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

Mental Health Resilience

Mental Health Resilience

Mental Patient

Mental Patient

Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility

Mental Patient

Mental Patient

The Fear Factor

The Fear Factor

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