Suffering and Psychology Taylor & Francis Ltd

Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology´s concentration on almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes to examines the ideological commitments of this vision of the discipline and offer a counter-vision.This book explores theoretical commitments and cultural ideals that deter the field of psychology from facing and dealing credibly with inescapable human limitations and frailties and with unavoidable suffering, pain, loss, heartbreak, and despair.The bookwil...