A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-13179-9 (ISBN)
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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?
Simon Bratt, PhD, is a senior mental health social worker, researcher, and lecturer. His work explores co-existing mental health and substance use through the lens of justice, dignity, and philosophical care, challenging how systems respond to human suffering.
1. Pain Comes First.- 2. Unravelling the False Stories, We Tell Ourselves.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.4.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | VI, 229 p. 2 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Schlagworte | Critical Realism • Dual diagnosis critique • Medical Sociology • philosophy of addiction • Philosophy of Psychiatry • Public Health |
| ISBN-10 | 3-032-13179-0 / 3032131790 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-032-13179-9 / 9783032131799 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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