Description |
1 online resource (iv, 233 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
At the interface/probing the bounderies ; v. 31 |
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 31.
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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 |
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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 |
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International conference proceedings |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects
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Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects
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Social psychology.
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Stress, Psychological
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Anxiety
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Depressive Disorder
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Laughter Therapy
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Psychology, Social
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social psychology.
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SELF-HELP -- Stress Management.
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Social psychology
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Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects
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Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Warren, Bernie, 1953-
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ISBN |
9781429480611 |
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1429480610 |
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