Humanizing mental illness : enhancing agency through social interaction /

"Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has, this book asks how we can enhance the agency of people with m...

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Autor principal: Gosselin, Abigail, 1977- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3022592
Taula de continguts:
  • Stigma and dehumanization
  • Constraints on agency. Mental impairments : direct constraints on agency
  • The isolating effects of mental illness : indirect constraints on agency
  • Social interactions. Moral address and response
  • Interacting with people who have mental illness.