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Seeking the Compassionate Life The Moral Crisis for Psychotherapy and Society
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Carl Goldberg, Virginia Crespo
Book Code: C8196
ISBN: 0-275-98196-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98196-9
232 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2004
List Price: $43.95 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Endorsement From John R. Graham,
    Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque:     ...Rich with insights...The cases presented lead to deep questions about existence and mankind.
  • Endorsement From Heward Wilkinson,
    Senior Editor
    International Journal of Psychotherapy:     The anecdotal chapters are superb: wonderful, vivid, often extremely moving stories, and the ways they are woven together are compelling....This is the most remarkable illustration of the power of appropriate and courageous self-disclosure I have ever read. All of them are gripping and poignant...extremely skilled. This is a style of writing in which Goldberg has great mastery.
  • Endorsement From Howard E. Book, M.D.,
    Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
    University of Toronto
    Author,The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success:     Seeking the Compassionate Life is a significant, substantial, very moving, self-disclosing and thoughtful book. The cases are striking and meaningful...with marvelous and innovative dialogue. A worthy, interesting and compelling read.
Description: Goldberg and Crespo take us inside their treatment rooms, through history, across cultures and into their own personal worlds-at-large to meet clients and acquaintances including a would-be rapist, a virtuous stalker, an adulterous minister, and a young boy with little more than a matchbook and some pride to call his own. Together, the stories of these clients and historical figures including Nazis at Nuremberg reflect a vital theme: Virtuous behavior should not be a mystery. Morality is a subject most ignored and little understood by modern psychological investigation. Why a person acts honorably or heinously is one of the most puzzling and least answered questions regarding human behavior. The authors demonstrate that although within every human breast hatred and arrogance battle compassion and decency as a driving force, people do indeed develop altruism, empathy, and concern for others. Goldberg and Crespo outline seven crucial factors in the achievement of a compassionate life. This book addresses two audiences. First, it questions modern psychological scientists who have ignored the importance of compassion, virtue, and morality, focusing instead on contrived experimental situations rather than pursuing investigations in--as part of--the actual world in which we live. Yet it is also written for all people concerned with the moral crisis in comtemporary society, and all people seeking personal and social solutions to deal with this crisis.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Constructive Shame: An Encounter with an Unfortunate Child
  • Healing Suffering and Despair through Communion: The Remarkable Psychiatric Case Conference
  • Moral Inquiry: The Investigation of Human Suffering and Personal Agency
  • The Mortal Storm: The Struggle between Righteousness and Compassion
  • A Critical Examination of the Problems with Self-Examination
  • The Dark Side of Curiosity: A Violent Client Who Read Camus
  • An Exploration of Impeded Curiosity: The Boy Who Was His Own Therapist
  • Existential Anguish: The Would-Be Rapist Trapped in Time
  • Loneliness and Dread: The Woman Who Tried to Escape Time
  • A Mirror of the Soul: Reflections of a Virtuous Stalker
  • The Invented Self: The General Who Was Abducted by Aliens from a UFO
  • A Clinical Perspective on Terrorism: The Failed Courage of the Fanatic
  • The Personal Story Approach: Reaching a Client Who Did Not Trust
  • The Adulterous Minister: A Clinical Examination of Moral Responsibility
LC Card Number: 2004005803
LCC Class: RC480
Dewey Class: 616
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