Capture
Subtitle: unraveling the mystery of mental suffering
By: David A. Kessler
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781443444941
Subjects: Mental illness; Etiology; Psychological aspects; Pathological Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Disorders; Psychology; Psychopathology; Maladies mentales; Aspect psychologique; Psychopathologie; Mental disorders
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A human mystery. The terrible master ; Capture ; The nature of mental distress ; The search for a common mechanism; title: The historical and scientific context of capture. William James and attention ; Freud and drive ; The science underlying capture; title: What captures? A continuum from the ordinary to mental illness ; Rejection ; A brutish father ; Drink ; Physical pain ; Childhood trauma ; Blind love ; Obscene fascination ; Gambling ; The body ; A work of art ; Death ; A threat ; Two addicts ; Control ; Sadness ; Grandeur ; Abandonment ; Going mad ; Accumulation of burdens ; A unified theory; title: When capture turns on the self. David Foster Wallace; title: When capture leads to violence. Striking out ; The assassination of Robert Kennedy ; The Columbine school shootings ; The murder of John Lennon ; The murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School ; A theory of human capital; title: Capture and ideology. The America I have seen ; The obligation of our time ; I'm going traveling ;; title: laveOfAllah -- Capture and spirituality. Capture by the divine ; Paying attention ; Captured by a message ; The revelation of nature -- Capture and change. Martin Luther's "Anfechtungen" ; Meaningful association ; Moments of clarity ; A creative life ; Compelled to be different ; Being in the right place ; Distracting the black dog ; Belief ; "Good-bye to all that" ; Reconciliation and forgiveness ; A toolkit borrowed from Buddhism ; Is there freedom from capture? ; A modest form of autonomy.