Suffering and Psychology

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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Stories of Suffering
2. The Denial of Suffering in Psychology
3. Disguised Ideology
4. Early Religion and the Axial Age
5. Modern Approaches
6. Toward a "New Wisdom of Limits"
7. Transforming Suffering

About the author

Frank C. Richardson is Professor of Educational Psychology (emeritus) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author or coeditor of several books, including Re-envisioning Psychology, Critical thinking about Psychology, and the Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the author of many articles and chapters in theoretical psychology and the philosophy of social science. His current interests include topics in psychology and religion. He is a past president of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association) and recipient of a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank C. Richardson, Richardson Frank C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032502649
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250264-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy of religion