Psychology of Hope

An Antidote to the Suicidal Pathology of Western Civilization

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it. Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms: God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore, heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual compelled to choose between impossible alternatives.In each of the first three sections, the authors discuss the issues of suicide from a comparative framework, whether in thought or myth, then the suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman world, and finally, the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew world. The final section draws on this material to present a suicide prevention therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a new psychological model linking culture to the suicidal personality and suggests an antidote, especially with regard to the treatment of the suicidal individual.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-03-30
Mått:157 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:493 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275943790

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

KALMAN J. KAPLAN is Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinios at Chicago, and at Spertus College of Judaica, and Research Associate in Psychiarty at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist. He is currently Research Associate at Humana Hospital--Michael Reese and Adjunct Professor at Spertus College for Judaica in Chicago. He is the co-author of The Family: Biblical and Psychological Foundations (1984) and a contributor to Metapsychology: Missing Links in Mind, Body, and Behavior (1991). He has written numerous journal articles about Biblibal psychology, interpersonal relations, human development, and suicide.MATTHEW B. SCHWARTZ teaches history at Wayne State University. He is co-author, with Kalman Kaplan, of The Family: Biblical and Psychological Foundations (1984)./e He is also co-author of Roman Letters (1991) and a contributor to History of the Jews of Detroit: Volume II (1992).

Innehållsförteckning

The Problem of Suicide To Be or Not to Be Suicide in Graeco-Roman Thought Suicide in Jewish and Christian Thought Individual Case Studies Cycle versus Development: Narcissus or Jonah Suicide in Greek Tragedy Suicide and Suicide Prevention in the Hebrew Bible Family Influences Couples: Polarization versus Growth The Suicide-Promoting Structure of the Greek Family: Oedipus and Electra The Suicide-Preventing Structure of the Hebrew Family: Isaac and Ruth The Prevention of Suicide From Tragedy to Therapy: A Psychology of Hope