Hope as Simulation: Suspension of Disbelief, Coping Styles, and Post‑Traumatic Growth in an Age Where Democracy Itself Can Feel Fragile (working title)
We invite chapter abstract submissions for an edited academic volume exploring how people cope and how clinicians, researchers, educators, and media-makers can support coping when the potential fall of democracy feels like a lived psychological threat and everyday life becomes saturated with uncertainty, mistrust, and danger-signals. This is a volume on mental health and human resilience (coping, regulation, meaning-making, post-traumatic growth), not a political science text or partisan argument. https://youtu.be/lnebIZNkrmA?si=DcMlhbo5zKNbndYY