Much madness is divinest sense: wisdom in memoirs of soul-suffering
Memoirs of soul-suffering -- Why study memoirs of soul-suffering? -- What makes wisdom in memoirs of soul-suffering "spiritual?" -- Why produce memoirs of soul-suffering? -- Problems with memoirs of soul-suffering -- Studying memoirs of soul-suffering -- Identity -- Personal contexts, part...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cleveland, Ohio
Pilgrim Press
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mentally ill person
/ Church work
B Mental illness / Pastoral psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Mental Health
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Mentally ill Religious aspects B Mentally ill Case studies B Emotions Religious aspects Christianity |
| Summary: | Memoirs of soul-suffering -- Why study memoirs of soul-suffering? -- What makes wisdom in memoirs of soul-suffering "spiritual?" -- Why produce memoirs of soul-suffering? -- Problems with memoirs of soul-suffering -- Studying memoirs of soul-suffering -- Identity -- Personal contexts, particular suffering -- Underrepresented diversity -- Demographic diversity -- Diversity in suffering and healing -- Social sicknesses, collective suffering -- Cultural conditions -- Relational and existential violences -- Social "progress" -- Bigotry and discrimination -- Sick from seeing too much -- Suffering -- Acute anguish -- Its emergence -- Images and metaphors -- Physical aspects of acute anguish -- Difficulty of accessing treatment -- The shock of loss -- Spiritual and religious distress -- Longer-term dynamics of the anguish -- The unknown -- Shame and responsibility -- Social isolation -- Damaged relationships -- Loss and grief -- The special anguish of suicidality -- Families' distinctive anguish -- Suicide survivors -- Other families' distinctive suffering -- Care -- Care that harms -- The anguish of mental health treatment -- The anguish of religious care -- Care that helps -- Breathing, and other acts of being -- No small thing -- Everyone needs keys -- Life really is a mystery -- Increasing pain thresholds -- What can we say? -- Renewable resources -- Healing -- Turning points -- Acceptance -- Healing work -- Connecting with families of birth and choice -- Building habits of holistic health -- Education -- Mourning as part of healing work -- Preparation for recurrence -- Respite -- Healing mental health services -- Hospitalization -- Diagnoses and medications -- Psychotherapists and psychotherapy -- Communal approaches to mental health care -- Healing mind, body and soul -- Healing religion -- Religious concepts -- Religious practices -- Religious professionals -- Healing spirituality -- Appreciation of simplicity -- Humor and playfulness -- Paradox -- Creativity -- Nature -- Genuineness -- Service -- Hope |
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| ISBN: | 0829815708 |