The importance of suffering :the value and meaning of emotional discontent
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London ; New York
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Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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198 p. ; 24 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]184[-189( and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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The relational perspective on suffering -- Positive and negative models of suffering: a battle for supremacy -- Anaesthetic regimes and the unproblematic life -- The consequences of avoiding our primary problems: unproductive suffering -- Productive suffering as a ritual process - as useful descent -- The period of transition in the ritual of productive suffering