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Biologically flavored perspectives on Garmezian resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2012

Daniel R. Hanson  and
Irving I. Gottesman
Daniel R. Hanson*
Affiliation:
Marshfield Clinic University of Minnesota
Irving I. Gottesman
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Daniel R. Hanson, Marshfield Clinic, Riverview Center, 1000 Starr Avenue, Eau Claire, WI 54703; E-mail: hanson.daniel@marshfieldclinic.org or drhanson@umn.edu.
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Abstract

Norman Garmezy devoted the better part of four decades developing and promoting the construct of resilience for developmental psychopathology. He proposed resilience as a paradigm to guide the understanding of how people can transcend adversity and go on to live healthy, productive lives. This tribute to Norman starts with a look at the early context for his work during his distinguished tenure in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Resilience constructs are then compared from interdisciplinary perspectives across a variety of biological and physical sciences. All of these perspectives lead to similar conclusions: resilience is not a thing but a process. Furthermore, the processes are the product of energy-hungry systems. Finally, these insights are applied to difficult to modify maladaptive behaviors raising the question of a dark side to resilience.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 363 - 369
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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