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| A degree for patients |
The emergence of the concept of resilience and its popularity is symptomatic of a deep change of paradigm in the field of medicine and treatment: the patient is no longer defined as the carrier of a disease, no longer made into an object that science will treat. The patient is seen as able to take an active part in his/her own recovery or well-living.
The tendency is echoed by the medical and scholar communities as the example of those two graduate programs shows. It is now possible at the University of Aix-en-Provence in France, following the example of the University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris, for chronically ill patients who are involved in their recovery to receive a degree.
This evolution is very similar in its concept with one of the key practices that exists in the 12 step-programs of recovery from addiction: a person suffering from an addiction helps another one afflicted by the same addiction.
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