First Winter Alone

Why does society demand a rapid "e;bounce-back"e; from life-shattering events? The First Winter Alone dismantles the modern myth of resilience, revealing it as a biological absurdity borrowed from 19th-century metallurgy and misapplied to the human nervous system. When faced with catastrophic change, the body and mind don't fail-they enter a protective, necessary state of "e;psychological hibernat...