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The origins of unhappiness : a new understanding of personal distress / / David Smail



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Autore: Smail D. J (David John) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The origins of unhappiness : a new understanding of personal distress / / David Smail Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2018
Edizione: 1st
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina: 152.4
Soggetto topico: Depression, Mental
Melancholy
Sadness
Emotions
Affective disorders
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Previously issued in print: London: HarperCollins, 1993.
Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: COVER; 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
Sommario/riassunto: It 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...
Titolo autorizzato: The origins of unhappiness  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-429-90740-0
0-429-48263-9
1-78241-394-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461759903321
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