The book is about the human condition: suffering, emotional and
psychological distress, identity, existence, and reality. It
examines these issues at the physical, biological, psychological,
sociocultural, linguistic, discursive, and spiritual levels,
comparing and evaluating, as well as integrating where possible, a
broad range of approaches and theories to provide a holistic
understanding of the person. This book accomplishes the following:
charts a range of cross-disciplinary approaches and theories
relating to human nature, experience and behaviour; suggesting,
within each of these how they may be seen to relate to the human
condition, suffering, and to reducing emotional and psychological
distress discusses current postmodernist/post-structuralist
concerns about the essence of what we are (i.e. whether we really
are essential and substantial individuals, or whether we are merely
sociolinguistic and sociocultural constructs or subjects)
incorporates eastern philosophies and psychologies in relation to
what we are, reality, the mind, the self, and suffering identifies,
in its conclusion, a number of elicited principles and practices a
person may incorporate into their daily living to reduce suffering
and increase psychological and emotional well-being and offers a
schematic representation of its general concepts in relation to the
human condition, its levels, components, and processes, which can
be used to refer to or underpin understanding and for readers'
further discussion, exploration and researches
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