# Psychological Bravery

*Tom Geraghty · Individual & Wellbeing, Voice & Silence*

Critiques the 'psychological bravery' framing as an individualistic, privilege-adjacent substitution for creating structurally safe conditions. Drawing on Goffman's face-work, argues bravery is a cost not a solution — the work is to reduce the cost, not exhort people to pay it anyway.

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