Description
| Product ID: | 9781138302259 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology |
| Title: | Suffering and Psychology |
| Authors: | Author: Frank C. Richardson |
| Page Count: | 150 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of religion, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy of religion, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology's concentration on almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes to examines the ideological commitments of this vision of the discipline and offer a counter-vision. Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology''s concentration almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. Modern psychology and psychotherapy are motivated in part by a humane and compassionate desire to relieve many kinds of human suffering. However, they have concentrated almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. In doing so psychology perpetuates modern ideologies of individual human freedom and expanding instrumental control that foster worthy ideals but are distinctly limited and by themselves quite self-defeating and damaging in the long run. This book explores theoretical commitments and cultural ideals that deter the field of psychology from facing and dealing credibly with inescapable human limitations and frailties, and with unavoidable suffering, pain, loss, heartbreak, and despair. Drawing on both secular and spiritual points of view, this book seeks to recover ideals of character and compassion and to illuminate the possibility of what Jonathan Sacks terms "transforming suffering" rather than seeking mainly to eliminate, anesthetize, or defy these dark and difficult aspects of the human condition. Suffering and Psychology will be of interest to academic and professional psychologists and philosophers. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-03 |
