The importance of suffering
Subtitle: the value and meaning of emotional discontent
By: James Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hove; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415667791; 9780415667807
Subjects: Suffering; Mental health; Emotions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relational perspective on suffering; title: Positive and negative models of suffering: a battle for supremacy; title: Anaesthetic regimes and the unproblematic life; title: The consequences of avoiding our primary problems: unproductive suffering; title: Productive suffering as a ritual process - as useful descent; title: The period of transition in the ritual of productive suffering.