Soul Pain
eBook - ePub

Soul Pain

The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Soul Pain

The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life

About this book

This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one's gender, ethnic background, and religion. Although gerontological literature has equated suffering with depression, grief, pain and sadness, elders themselves distinguished suffering from these concepts and at the same time showed how they are linked. Narratives of suffering from community-dwelling elders are interpreted in this book, along with the personal meaning of suffering that lies within each narrative.

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Yes, you can access Soul Pain by Helen Black,Helen K Black in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. CHAPTER 1 The Topography of Suffering
  9. CHAPTER 2 Voices of Suffering
  10. CHAPTER 3 Suffering: A Gendered Phenomenon
  11. CHAPTER 4 Pain and Bodily Suffering
  12. CHAPTER 5 Social Suffering
  13. CHAPTER 6 Coping with Suffering
  14. CHAPTER 7 The Morality of Suffering
  15. CHAPTER 8 Metaphors of Suffering
  16. CHAPTER 9 The Activity of Suffering
  17. CHAPTER 10 Who is the Self that Suffers?
  18. Appendix
  19. References
  20. Index