Suffering

Suffering arises out of a less than ideal construction of the 
individual’s experience, one that is overly impacted by early and 
ongoing conflictual relationships (Renik, 2007). The tendency toward 
re-creating early relational patterns is what gives rise to suffering in
 contemporary life. These patterns of relating arise in the consulting 
room and are the material with which the psychoanalyst and patient work 
in the here and now↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201022130240/https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/views-suffering-freud-vs-buddha.
Category:Harm