What Counts as Resilience? Childhood Adversity, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Coloniality of the ‘Invulnerable’
Published online on May 20, 2026
Abstract
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In 1972, psychologist Jerome Kagan boldly proclaimed that research he had recently conducted on the Maya of Guatemala would overturn the most cherished assumption in his field of child development. He insisted that early deprivation did not doom a child ...
In 1972, psychologist Jerome Kagan boldly proclaimed that research he had recently conducted on the Maya of Guatemala would overturn the most cherished assumption in his field of child development. He insisted that early deprivation did not doom a child ...