METARESILIENCE

This book invites you on a transformative journey that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of psychology and neuroscience. Hand in hand with an Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical anthropology and in constant dialogue with the latest findings of neuroscience you will delve into the uniqueness of human resilience. This approach will allow you to understand how our capacity for resilience operates in two interconnected processes: Firstly it acts rooted in our biology and neurophysiological processes and secondly metaresilience is put into action where rationality will and consciousness elevate recovery to an intentional act of transformation and meaning. It reveals the person in his or her integral psychophysical unity capable of not only resisting and adapting but of transcending trauma turning adversity into a catalyst for maximum development. The distinction between the physical/biological and the rational without falling into extreme dualisms offers a solid framework for understanding how human resilience shares similarities with the self-regenerative capacity of other living organisms but at the same time is exclusive as it is a conscious and voluntary act.