Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Tine Holm, Rikke Jensen

Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be äected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying, or practicing in mental health professions will ¿nd a wealth of humanizing ¿rst-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will ¿nd a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving toward intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• 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.