The Positive Power of Sadness - How Good Grief Prevents and Cures Anxiety, Depression, and Anger (Hardcover)

Written by two clinical psychologists with nearly a century of combined experience, this book explains how people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or undue anger can overcome these difficulties by allowing the normal process of grieving to occur. Sadness is generally characterized as a negative emotion, yet experiencing sadness plays a positive and key role in achieving and maintaining mental health and in avoiding anxiety, depression, and anger. Indeed, sadness can be understood as a normal and necessary feeling that always occurs when one loses something that is loved. The Positive Power of Sadness examines the experience of sadness, taking into account the personal, relational, and neurological factors of sadness; explains the cultural reasons that many resist feeling sad and consequently displace sadness into secondary processes; and provides a practical and systematic way to overcome anger, anxiety, and depression by allowing the normal process of being sad to occur. This simple paradigm of love and loss causing joy and sorrow in tandem is founded on solid research, carefully considered theory, and extensive experience and will serve to stimulate further thought and writing. Professional therapists, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and clergy who work with people in various settings will find this enlightening reading, as will general readers seeking self-help or possessing an interest in psychological functioning or relational difficulties. Provides a solid foundation for understanding anger, anxiety, and depression as well as a practical and solid approach for overcoming these difficulties Examines the neurological factors associated with feelings, particularly sadness, and identifies the relational complications that arise when one experiences sadness Describes the cultural and personal resistance to the experience of sadness that often compels people to keep their sadness "bottled up" Explains how anger, anxiety, and depression can be prevented by accepting and experiencing sadness

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Ron Johnson • Deb Brock
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-1-4408-5499-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services
LSN:	1-4408-5499-8
Barcode:	9781440854996

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