{"product_id":"suffering-and-psychology-hardcover","title":"Suffering and Psychology - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank C. Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuffering and Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e challenges modern psychology's concentration almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. Modern psychology and psychotherapy are motivated in part by a humane and compassionate desire to relieve many kinds of human suffering. However, they have concentrated almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. In doing so psychology perpetuates modern ideologies of individual human freedom and expanding instrumental control that foster worthy ideals but are distinctly limited and by themselves quite self-defeating and damaging in the long run. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. Drawing on both secular and spiritual points of view, this book seeks to recover ideals of character and compassion and to illuminate the possibility of what Jonathan Sacks terms \"transforming suffering\" rather than seeking mainly to eliminate, anesthetize, or defy these dark and difficult aspects of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuffering and Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to academic and professional psychologists and philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank C. Richardson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Educational Psychology (emeritus) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author or coeditor of several books, including \u003cem\u003eRe-envisioning Psychology, Critical thinking about Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eRoutledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715324244275,"sku":"9781138302259","price":164.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TXVlT2dzZ3ZtT3FhZzZ3dStaRXRhdz09.webp?v=1763600467","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/suffering-and-psychology-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}