Chronic pain, loss, and suffering / / Ranjan Roy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456197103321
• Autore: Roy R (Ranjan)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-282-01475-7; 9786612014758; 1-4426-7294-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.0019
• Soggetti: Sick - Psychology; Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects; Chronic pain - Psychological aspects; Grief; Loss (Psychology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Loss and Grief: An Overview -- 2. Loss, Sadness, and Depression: Many Faces of Abnormal Grief and Other Complications -- 3. Job Loss and Chronic Illness: A Situation of Double Jeopardy -- 4. Declining Health and Functioning: Redefining Identity -- 5. Family Roles: What Is Lost? -- 6. Chronic Illness and Sexual Roles -- 7. Old Age, Pain, and Loss -- 8. Chronic Illness and Suicide: The Ultimate Loss -- 9. Grief Therapy -- 10. Epilogue -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Loss and grief are an inherent part of chronic illness. But while much has been written on grief associated with death and dying, the grief and losses accompanying chronic illness have received relatively little scholarly attention. In Chronic Pain, Loss, and Suffering, Ranjan Roy, a leading expert on chronic pain, addresses the complex issues related to loss among those with chronic illness.For many patients with chronic ; intractable pain disorders, the course of their illness is unpredictable and varied. Many seeming losses are transient and can be redeemed over time, for instance, through retraining and physical therapy, but are still serious and pose a challenge to the common understanding of the grief process. Clinical understanding of grief is undergoing a revolution. From its Freudian roots, it is shifting more and more to a social-psychological perspective. The phase-task orientation of grief has come under serious scrutiny, and this book demonstrates some of the problems inherent in that conceptualization in its application to the chronically ill. The author attempts to combine the current state of knowledge through an examination of contemporary literature and clinical application. He presents a series of comprehensive case studies, which together indicate that the key challenge for many patients is loss of self-esteem and control. The chapters deal with a range of losses such as job loss, declining ability to function, loss of family and sexual roles, old age and its related losses, and suicide. Through discussion of the trials and tribulations and successes that chronically ill patients encounter in their journey, this work will assist clinicians in helping patients come to terms with their new reality and establish a renewed sense of self.

Reconstructing individualism [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / / James M. Albrecht

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788679103321
• Autore: Albrecht James M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8232-4212-9; 9786613889911; 1-283-57746-1; 0-8232-4211-0; 0-8232-4659-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Collana: American philosophy
• Classificazione: PHI020000PHI019000
• Disciplina: 141/.40973
• Soggetti: Individualism in literature; Individualism - United States - History; Literature and society - United States; Philosophy, American - 19th century; Philosophy, American - 20th century; Pragmatism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. “Individualism Has Never Been Tried” -- One. What’s the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically? -- Two. “Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men” -- Three. Moments in the World’s Salvation -- Four. Character and Community -- Five. “The Local Is the Ultimate Universal” -- Six. Saying Yes and Saying No -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: America has a love–hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American thinkers—Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison. These writers’ shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), ; experimentalism, and a melioristic stance toward value and reform led them to describe the self as inherently relational. Accordingly, they articulate models of selfhood that are socially engaged and ethically responsible, and they argue that a reconceived—or, in Dewey’s term, “reconstructed”—individualism is not merely compatible with but necessary to democratic community. Conceiving selfhood and community as interrelated processes, they call for an ongoing reform of social conditions so as to educate and liberate individuality, and, conversely, they affirm the essential role individuality plays in vitalizing communal efforts at reform.