Narrating Injustice Survival: Self-Medication by Victims of Crime

by Marinella Marmo and Willem de Lint

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030066738
• ISBN13: 9783030066734
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"