A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges
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A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges | 4.49 MB
Title: A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges
Author: Simon Bratt
Category: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Language: English | 240 Pages | ISBN: 3032131790
Description:
This book is a philosophical inquiry into psychological and emotional pain—specifically, the pain experienced by those who live with mental distress and use substances to cope. It challenges how society misreads this pain, reducing it to diagnoses, deviance, or dysfunction. Drawing on critical realism, phenomenology, and lived experience, the book argues that such pain is not a symptom to be silenced, but a form of knowledge an intelligent, if desperate, response to unliveable conditions. Addiction and mental distress are not separate problems, but co-emergent strategies for survival. Through historical critique, philosophical analysis, and empirical data, the book dismantles the concept of "dual diagnosis" and offers an alternative: the Layered Care Model (LCM). Rooted in justice and human dignity, the LCM reimagines care for people who use substances not despite their pain, but because of it. At its heart, the book asks: what if psychological pain comes first and everything else is a response to it?
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This book is a philosophical inquiry into psychological and emotional pain—specifically, the pain experienced by those who live with mental distress and use substances to cope. It challenges how society misreads this pain, reducing it to diagnoses, deviance, or dysfunction. Drawing on critical realism, phenomenology, and lived experience, the book argues that such pain is not a symptom to be silenced, but a form of knowledge an intelligent, if desperate, response to unliveable conditions. Addiction and mental distress are not separate problems, but co-emergent strategies for survival. Through historical critique, philosophical analysis, and empirical data, the book dismantles the concept of "dual diagnosis" and offers an alternative: the Layered Care Model (LCM). Rooted in justice and human dignity, the LCM reimagines care for people who use substances not despite their pain, but because of it. At its heart, the book asks: what if psychological pain comes first and everything else is a response to it?
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/13d9ab9f82a041dc71dc9c13893b861e/A_Philosophical_Critique_of_Co-Existing_Mental_Health_and_Substance_Use_Challenges.pdf
https://nitroflare.com/view/BC033FA4C91DA3D/A_Philosophical_Critique_of_Co-Existing_Mental_Health_and_Substance_Use_Challenges.pdf
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