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Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul : Transcending the Medicalisation of Sadness.
This ground-breaking book contemplates how some religious individuals and communities conceptualise severe sadness and emotional distress, which might otherwise be described as pathological, as an essential ingredient for spiritual development. It explores the implications this may have for clergy a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul: Transcending the Medicalisation of Sadness by Glòria Durà-Vilà
- Foreword by Professor Roland Littlewood
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- What is the book about?
- Why did I embark on this research?
- Reflecting on the challenges of the research
- Potential positive effect of the research
- Organisation of the book
- Note
- Part I
- Setting the Literary and Historical Contexts
- Looking back at the origins of the study
- Note
- Chapter 1
- Depression and the Medicalisation of Sadness: Conceptualisation and Help-Seeking
- Medicalisation of sadness and suffering
- The role of culture and religion
- Help-seeking and coping with sadness and depression
- Note
- Chapter 2
- The Role of the Clergy in the Management of Sadness and Depression, and Their Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals
- Psychiatrists' attitudes regarding the clergy's involvement in mental health care
- The clergy as a resource for mental health
- Collaboration between the clergy and psychiatrists
- Pastoral care, spiritual direction and the sacrament of confession
- Chapter 3
- Sketches on the Catholic Church and Monasticism
- The state of the Church and the clergy
- An historical overview of the Cistercian and Augustinian Orders
- Ethnographic research into monasticism
- Notes
- Part II
- Unfolding the Narratives of Sadness and Spiritual Growth
- Chapter 4
- The Participants and Their Ways of Life
- Fieldwork and interviews
- 57 faces, 57 stories
- Differences between the monks and the nuns
- Notes
- Chapter 5
- Conceptualisation of Sadness, Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Normal sadness and pathological sadness: conceptualisation and distinction
- The Dark Night of the Soul: a case of non-pathological religious sadness
- Religion as a cause for pathological sadness.
- Notes
- Chapter 6
- Coping and Help-Seeking for Sadness and Depression
- Coexistence of religious and secular coping strategies and help-seeking behaviours
- Medical help-seeking behaviours and an absence of causality for the sadness
- The impact of the individual's personality
- Differences and peculiarities observed in the nuns, monks and priests
- Notes
- Chapter 7
- The Role of the Clergy in the Care of Sadness and Depression, and Their Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals
- Pastoral care is provided for both sadness and depression
- Views on the clergy's pastoral care from the perspective of contemplative participants and lay people: benefits, critique and comparison with the monks
- Clergy and mental health professionals: overlap, rivalry and collaboration
- Notes
- Part III
- Stepping Beyond the Monasteries' and Parishes' Walls
- Chapter 8
- The Medicalisation of Sadness and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Modern tendency to define severe distress as disease
- Contextualisation of sadness: attribution of meaning and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Note
- Chapter 9
- Religious Coping with Sadness and Depression
- Religious coping strategies
- Differences between the nuns and the monks
- Notes
- Chapter 10
- The Clergy's Role in Assisting Those Suffering from Sadness and Depression
- My findings in dialogue with the previous literature
- The clergy's view of psychiatrists: rivalry and opposition
- Clergy's explanatory models for depression and possible repercussions for their pastoral care
- Clergy's pastoral care for sadness and depression: compliments and complaints
- Final reflections on pastoral care
- Notes
- Chapter 11
- A Framework to Differentiate Normal Sadness from Depression
- Rationale of the framework
- Distinguishing normal sadness and the Dark Night of the Soul from depression in clinical practice.
- Applicability of the study to a secular context
- Notes
- Appendix 1
- Ethical Considerations
- Appendix 2
- Limitations of the Study
- Appendix 3
- Finding the Questions to Get the Answers
- Appendix 4
- Summary of Findings: Main Themes and Sub-Themes Extracted from the Participants' Interviews
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Blank Page.