Dutiful Love: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness

Dutiful Love explores the relationship between self-sacrificial love and caregiving when duty to care for someone with severe mental illness extends over the course of an entire lifetime. The author draws on her own experiences as a sibling of someone with severe mental illness (SMI) and tells the stories of many other such siblings she interviewed. The author encourages caregivers to think about the concept of self-giving as an alternative to self-sacrifice. She points to the importance of...