TY - JOUR
AU1 - Torrens, Lorna
AB - NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION 2012, 22 (6), 942 – 943 Book Review L. Jetten, C. Haslam, & S. A. Haslam (Ed.) (2011). The social cure: Identity, health and well-being. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. ISBN: 978-1-84872- 021-3. 390 pages. Price £42.00 (hbk). For someone currently heading up a chronic pain service where I spend a good deal of my day bringing folk round to the notion that it’s not “cure” we seek for salvation but a good dose of acceptance, committed actions in the direction of values and commensurate improvement in quality of life, the title of the book, together with what seemed liked an explicit direction to restate it a minimum number of times in each and every chapter, did not sit entirely comfortably. The volume sets itself three tasks including exploring those factors which appear to make membership of social groups beneficial; bringing together a professionally diverse cast of researchers to proffer their thoughts and find- ings on those factors (importantly translating these into potential practical strategies); and, finally, considering the tricky and tiresome issue of how to harness resource for the social “cause” in the same way as health or technol- ogy advancements might be prioritised. At a time 
TI - The social cure: Identity, health and well-being
JF - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
DO - 10.1080/09602011.2012.711658
DA - 2012-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-social-cure-identity-health-and-well-being-Hzf2UBXHge
SP - 942
EP - 943
VL - 22
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -