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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting look at suffering's transformative power,
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This review is from: The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion, and Renewal (Hardcover)
In "The Gifts of Suffering," Jungian psychologist Polly Young-Eisendrath discusses the impact of suffering on both the child and adult psyche, with a special emphasis on resilience and transcending pain to find a deeper meaning. While the concept was very illuminating and interesting, the book suffers from a lack of focus. Part social criticism, part inspirational, part Buddhist history and theory, and part psychological theory, the book never seemed to quite come together. I wanted to hear more about how to develop resilience, what cultivates it. I also felt that Dr. Young-Eisendrath could have expanded the parameters of her research to include more than four individuals, interesting though those were, and perhaps made her language a bit more universal, and watered down some of her more critical opinions, which, in my opinion, detracted from the overall effect of her book. |
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The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion, and Renewal by Polly Young-Eisendrath (Hardcover - June 1996)
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