Coping with Chronic Illness: Theories, Issues and Lived Experiences - Paperback

by Silvia Bonino (Author)

This valuable book combines psychological theories of health with the lived experience of coping with chronic health conditions, focusing on the 'ill person' as an actor of their own development. It draws on perspectives from developmental and health psychology alongside the author's personal experience of chronic illness.

Author Biography

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).