ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on resources for coping with stress, such as developing resilience, but also on positivity: flourishing, well-being and happiness as aspects of discovery in running triad of mutuality-resilience-discovery. In the United Kingdom, psychiatry as a specialty, as one might expect, can be seen to lead the way in offering enlightened forms of support for trainees in comparison with other medical specialties, going beyond instrumental issues to psychological well-being. Contemporary psychiatry training in some ways mimics the psychological support mechanisms offered to patients: often group based and interprofessional, with emphasis upon avoiding the debilitating effects of depersonalisation and dissociation, where patients feel as if they are acting in a bubble or within a giant wad of cotton wool, doing stuff but disconnected from it at the same time and clogging up rather than moving freely.
