Silvia Bonino is Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology of the University of Turin (Italy), where she founded the Laboratory of Developmental Psychology. She is the author of Nature and Culture in Intimate Partner Violence: Sex, Love and Equality, (Routledge, 2018).

Table of contents

Preface for this edition

Why this book

Part I

1. Healthy and ill: equal and different 2. Beyond the myth of perfect health

3. Protagonist of one's own development

4. Protagonist of one's own development in chronic disease

Part II

5. Why me?

6. Finding meaning

7. Reconstructing identity

8. Self-efficacy: the exercise of control

9. Stress

10. Coping with stress

Part III

11. It is all your fault

12. Pain

13. Fatigue

14. Depression

15. Mourning and loss

16. Optimism and happiness

17. Logical thought magical thought

18. Telling the story of one's illness

Part IV

19. The therapeutic relationship

20. Trust

21. Empathy

22. The patient between statistical logic and clinical logic

23. Alternative medicine

24. Confidentiality

Part V

25. Us and the others

26. Between visible and invisible

27. Solitude

28. Attachments

29. Work

30. Life and death

Part VI

31. Diagnosis: confronting the truth

32. "I want to do it on my own"

33. Being ill in the Internet age

34. And life goes on

35. Parents and children

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