Resilience in psychology: A critical analysis of the concept

被引:81
作者
Schwarz, Silke [1 ]
机构
[1] Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany
关键词
coping; critical theory; mental health; neoliberalism; resilience; MENTAL-ILLNESS; INEQUALITY; PERSONALITY; STRESS; SELF;
D O I
10.1177/0959354318783584
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Historically, psychiatry and clinical psychology focused on understanding how stressful life conditions led to psychiatric disorders. With the rise of positive psychology, the focus shifted to thriving through adversity and to concepts such as resilience. However, the number of mental disorders is still increasing. Due to a neoliberal Western decontextualizing stance in psychology, the concept of resilience is at risk of reproducing power imbalances and discrimination within our society. Resilience is analysed from a critical perspective, mostly with a Marxist point of view, including Foucauldian discursive approaches, as well as a biomedical critique of the current mental health system, to illustrate the shortcomings of Western psychologies. This article illustrates how a contextualized understanding of resilience that accounts for political, historical, and socioeconomic contexts at analytical levels besides the individual may overcome this ethnocentric and neoliberal bias.
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页码:528 / 541
页数:14
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