LEADER 02605oam 22006371 450 001 9910461759903321 005 20200324081357.0 010 $a0-429-90740-0 010 $a0-429-48263-9 010 $a1-78241-394-4 024 8 $a10.4324/9780429482632 035 $a(CKB)3710000000463152 035 $a(EBL)2147130 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2147130 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2147130 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11090623 035 $a(OCoLC)918998725 035 $a(OCoLC)1063630292 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1063630292 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9780429482632 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000463152 100 $a20180524e20181993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe origins of unhappiness $ea new understanding of personal distress /$fDavid Smail 205 $a1st 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: London: HarperCollins, 1993. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-367-32601-9 311 $a1-78220-287-0 327 $aCOVER; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1: Psychology and Distress - The Story So Far; 2: 'When I was Little' - The Experience of Power; 3: Bodies and Worlds - The Field of Power; 4: Case Study: The 1980's; 5: Help; 6: A Rational Faith; Appendix; Index 330 $aIt is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them. On the whole, psychology has concerned itself very little with the field of power which stretches beyond our immediate relations with each other, and this has led to serious limitations on the explanatory power of the theories it has produced. To illustrate this, typical cases of patient distress in the 1980's are examined. The decade when the right... 606 $aDepression, Mental 606 $aMelancholy 606 $aSadness 606 $aEmotions 606 $aAffective disorders 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDepression, Mental. 615 0$aMelancholy. 615 0$aSadness. 615 0$aEmotions. 615 0$aAffective disorders. 676 $a152.4 700 $aSmail$b D. J$g(David John),$0790820 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461759903321 996 $aThe origins of unhappiness$92198022 997 $aUNINA