This book explores 'why some people experience post-traumatic growth leading to greater wisdom and others do not and suggests that a critical variable is how one copes with that trauma: individuals who actively reflect on their experiences of trauma should develop higher levels …
"This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives. Anyone inte…
"This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives. Anyone inte…
"The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, …
"The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, …
'The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures' explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology,…
"The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, …
"The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, …
Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
by Lomas, Tim
fromMIT Press Ser
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Mapping Well-Being -- Experiential Cartography -- The Impact of Language and Culture -- Exploring Well-Being -- 2 Feelings -- Introduction -- Positive Feelings -- Ambivalent Feelings -- Summary -- 3 Relationships -- Introduction -- Love -- Proso…
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from…
Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference? Certain terms not easily translatable into English - for example, nirvāṇa (from Sanskrit), or agápē (from Classical Gre…
