Narrating Injustice Survival : Self-medication by Victims of Crime / by Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo.

1st ed. 2018.

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

XI, 224 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.

Palgrave studies in victims and victimology.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations. .

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