Western psychology Archives

Challenging Resilience as a Buzzword: Toward a Contextualized Resilience Model

Zenobia Morrill - September 10, 2018 2

Researcher Dr. Silke Schwarz highlights how Western psychology’s construction of individual resilience deflects emphasized individual pathology and deflects efforts at structural change.

In the News

Kenyan Employers Open to Hiring Workers with Psychosocial Disabilities

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Antidepressant Withdrawal Commonly Misdiagnosed as “Mental Illness”

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Affective Injustice: How Psychiatry Pathologizes and Marginalizes Emotions

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Psychoanalytic Therapy Beats CBT for Trauma-Linked Depression

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Blogs

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Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes...

September 17, 2024

Human

September 13, 2024

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

September 12, 2024

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Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?

September 11, 2024

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