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Title Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune : international perspectives on stress, laughter and depression / edited by Bernie Warren
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 233 pages) : illustrations
Series At the interface/probing the bounderies ; v. 31
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 31.
Contents Introduction; Collective Depression: Its Nature, Causation and Alleviation; A Study of Psychological Well-being, Job Satisfaction and Sources of Pressure of Medical Consultants and Post Graduate Students; Evaluation of the Historical Recent Past: Humour as a Possible Collective Coping Strategy; The Medicalization of Emotions: Happiness and the Role of General Practice; Nervios: Lessons from Cuba's Oriente; The Role of Negative Self-concept in Depression, Stress, and Anxiety of Married Women
Hong Kong's Female Sex Workers: Stress and Anxiety-related Consequences of the Intersection of Poverty, Gender, Dangerous WorkWe Aim To Pee: Unmasking the Secret Phobia and Reducing Performance Anxiety; Asylum Seekers in Australia: Turning Repression and Stress into long-term Anxiety and Depression; The Hospital Clown: A Cross Boundary Character; Clown Language, Performance and Children's Hospitals; LaughterBoss -- The Court Jester in Aged Care; "Nothing seems funny anymore": Studying Burnout in Clown-Doctors; Expressing Sensibilities: Healing Functions of Humour in Palliative Care
Summary The book Suffering the Slings and Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune: International Perspectives on Stress, Laughter and Depression highlights topics covered at an inaugural inter-disciplinary conference Making Sense of Stress Humour and Healing held in Budapest in May 2005. The chapters provide a truly international and inter-disciplinary perspective on the subject. Contributors to this volume come not only from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds but also from many parts of the globe. They speak of universal truths and of site-specific concerns. They do not all speak with one voice and s
Notes International conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index
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Subject Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects
Social psychology.
Stress, Psychological
Anxiety
Depressive Disorder
Laughter Therapy
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
SELF-HELP -- Stress Management.
Social psychology
Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects
Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Warren, Bernie, 1953-
ISBN 9781429480611
1429480610