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The soul in anguish: psychotherapeutic approaches to suffering

By: Material type: TextTextAsheville, NC Chiron Publications c2015Description: 379p ; bibliog. referencesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781630512354
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Contents:
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Forms of suffering. 3. Sacred pain and sacrifice. 4. The effects of suffering on the personality. 5. Helping others with suffering. 6. Spiritual and religious approaches to suffering. 7. Comparative psychotherapeutic approaches to suffering. 8. Suffering and the discovery of meaning. 9. Suffering as liminality. 10. Radical acceptance of suffering: the process of surrender. 11. Suffering, fate, and destiny. 12. Suffering due to illness. Afterward. Coda
Abstract: '... Presents a variety of approaches to psychotherapeutic work with suffering people, from perspectives of both Jungian and psychoanalytic psychology. An important theme of this book is that suffering may be harmful or helpful to the development of the personality. Our culture tends to assume that suffering is invariably negative or pointless, but it is not necesarily so; suffering may be destructive, but it may lead to postive developments such as enhanced empathy for others, wisdom, or spiritual development. The book offers professionals in any helping profession various frameworks within which to view suffering, so that the individual's suffering does not seem random or meaningless.'
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Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Forms of suffering. 3. Sacred pain and sacrifice. 4. The effects of suffering on the personality. 5. Helping others with suffering. 6. Spiritual and religious approaches to suffering. 7. Comparative psychotherapeutic approaches to suffering. 8. Suffering and the discovery of meaning. 9. Suffering as liminality. 10. Radical acceptance of suffering: the process of surrender. 11. Suffering, fate, and destiny. 12. Suffering due to illness. Afterward. Coda

'... Presents a variety of approaches to psychotherapeutic work with suffering people, from perspectives of both Jungian and psychoanalytic psychology. An important theme of this book is that suffering may be harmful or helpful to the development of the personality. Our culture tends to assume that suffering is invariably negative or pointless, but it is not necesarily so; suffering may be destructive, but it may lead to postive developments such as enhanced empathy for others, wisdom, or spiritual development. The book offers professionals in any helping profession various frameworks within which to view suffering, so that the individual's suffering does not seem random or meaningless.'

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