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List of contents
Preface, 1. Call Me Crazy! The Legend of the Neurotic Wolf; Social Killers; A Trip to the Hospital; A Historic Error, 2. Witches, Mad Doctors, and Pseudo-Sociologists The Bad Old Days; The Coming of Wisdom; The Arrival of Compassion; Psychotherapy and Deinstitutionalization; “Medical” Sociology; Moral Arbiters; Sociological Lapses, 3. On Losing Sore Losers; Loss; Losing; The Loss/Losing Nexus; The Social/Suffering Connection; Loss/Losing and the DSM Disorders; A Caveat, 4. Resocialization A Sovereign Remedy; The Repetition Compulsion; Denial; Protest; Sadness; Renegotiation, 5. Roles The Division of Labor; Traits versus Roles; Role Scripts; Role Partners; Dysfunctional Roles; Gender Roles, 6. Ranks King of the Mountain; Roles and Functions; Leaders and Tyrants; Caste and Class; Situational Stupidity; Bureaucracies, 7. Relationships Intimacy; Relationship Negotiations; Sex; Choosing a Partner; Courtship; Divorce; The Children of Divorce. 8. Beliefs Cognitive Communities; Irrationality; Faith; Lies; Pseudoscience. 9. Morality Moral Communities; Moral Logic; Hardball without an Umpire; For the Greater Good?; Idealism; Values; Character. 10. Beyond the Utopias A Distinction with a Difference; Accepting Limits; Amelioration; Cyclic Therapy. Bibliography. Index
About the author
Melvyn L. Fein
Summary
All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress
