Friendship and the Self

Cocking, Dean; Kennett, Jeanette

doi:10.1086/233824

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“…Contemporary Aristotelian concepts [42,43,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]] also inform what may be named a friendship-for-life process. Friends trust one another in goodwill (benevolence) and judgment concerning the other's welfare on the basis of understanding and respecting for who and what the friend is.…”

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Clubhouse Community Support for Life: Staff–Member Relationships and Recovery

Tanaka

Craig

Davidson

2015

J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health

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With signs that early interventions for severe mental illness have at best only a modest impact on longerterm outcome, a need for a long-term care and support system that facilitates recovery is resurfacing. This article describes a well-established long-term support program, the clubhouse model, drawing on qualitative interview data from 105 users and 25 staff from five clubhouses in the U.S. and Finland, which was analyzed using a grounded theory approach. Recurrent patterns of transformative life changes emerged. Central to these processes was a sense of equality between staff and members that transcended social roles and mental health status and was experienced as embodying trust in human potential and respecting member's choice. This staff-member relationship can be framed by the Aristotelian notion of friendship for life. The clubhouse, offering a home base to which members can return in times of need, may provide a viable safety net for recovery.

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Clubhouse Community Support for Life: Staff–Member Relationships and Recovery

Tanaka

Craig

Davidson

2015

J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health

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“…With more, and more accurate, indicators about my identity, my friend will be more deeply involved in both shaping and in helping me to understand and evaluate who I am. And this process of mutually drawing one another's identity (being receptive and responsive to direction and interpretation by one another) is a necessary aspect of close friendships (see also Cocking and Kennett 1998). Thus, ''non-voluntary behaviour and interaction is crucial to the nature and value of close friendship and the self within it'' (p. 230).…”

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Real friends: how the Internet can foster friendship

Briggle

2008

Ethics Inf Technol

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Dean Cocking and Steve Matthews' article ' 'Unreal Friends'' (Ethics and Information Technology, 2000) argues that the formation of purely mediated friendships via the Internet is impossible. I critique their argument and contend that mediated contexts, including the Internet, can actually promote exceptionally strong friendships according to the very conceptual criteria utilized by Cocking and Matthews. I first argue that offline relationships can be constrictive and insincere, distorting important indicators and dynamics in the formation of close friends. The distance of mediated friendships mitigates this problem by promoting the courage to be candid. Next, I argue that the offline world of largely oral exchanges is often too shallow and hasty to promote deep bonds. The deliberateness of written correspondence acts as a weight to submerge friendships to greater depths and as a brake to enhance attentiveness to and precision about one's own and one's friend's character. Nonetheless, close friendships may fail to develop on the Internet. Insofar as this failure occurs, however, it would be for reasons other than those identified by Cocking and Matthews.

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“…Specifically, the Michelangelo Phenomenon suggests that close relationship partners can help move individuals closer to their ideal self via affirmation of the ideal self and therefore promote personal and relational well-being (Drigotas, Rusbult, Wieselquist, & Whitton, 1999;Rusbult, Finkel, & Kumashiro, 2009). Especially friendships serve as processes that justify such self-concepts (Derlega & Chaikin, 1975); people are receptive to how their friends see them, and friendships contribute to self-sufficiency by increasing self-awareness, consequently presenting a more ideal self (Cocking & Kennett, 1998). …”

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