1st Edition
On Loss and Losing Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress
By Melvyn L. Fein
Copyright 2012
374 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
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All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress. All too often, their discomfort is treated as a medical issue requiring treatment usually through medication. Melvyn L. Fein argues for a broader understanding of loss and losing that offers another approach, which he characterizes as "resocialization." Indeed, how a person thinks, feels, and acts may all need to be reorganized if... Read more
Preface, 1. Call Me Crazy! The Legend of the Neurotic Wolf; Social Killers; A Trip to the Hospital; A Historic Error, 2. Witches, Mad Doctors, and Pseudo-Sociologists The Bad Old Days; The Coming of Wisdom; The Arrival of Compassion; Psychotherapy and Deinstitutionalization; “Medical” Sociology; Moral Arbiters; Sociological Lapses, 3. On Losing Sore Losers; Loss; Losing; The Loss/Losing Nexus; The Social/Suffering Connection; Loss/Losing and the DSM Disorders; A Caveat, 4. Resocialization A Sovereign Remedy; The Repetition Compulsion; Denial; Protest; Sadness; Renegotiation, 5. Roles The Division of Labor; Traits versus Roles; Role Scripts; Role Partners; Dysfunctional Roles; Gender Roles, 6. Ranks King of the Mountain; Roles and Functions; Leaders and Tyrants; Caste and Class; Situational Stupidity; Bureaucracies, 7. Relationships Intimacy; Relationship Negotiations; Sex; Choosing a Partner; Courtship; Divorce; The Children of Divorce. 8. Beliefs Cognitive Communities; Irrationality; Faith; Lies; Pseudoscience. 9. Morality Moral Communities; Moral Logic; Hardball without an Umpire; For the Greater Good?; Idealism; Values; Character. 10. Beyond the Utopias A Distinction with a Difference; Accepting Limits; Amelioration; Cyclic Therapy. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Melvyn L. Fein
