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Author : Richard H. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199734542
Argues that schadenfreude is a normal human emotion, looking at its roots in feelings of justice, positive sense of self, and concern with inferiority.
Author : Mansukh Patel
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
ISBN : 9781873606070
Author : Diane Czekala
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629984620
When Diane Czekala’s daughter April died in 2011, she was just twenty-three and had her whole life ahead of her. Uniquely, she knew she was going to die and told her mother about it three months before it happened. Diane wanted to hear nothing about it, but then told her, " 'IF' you do die, find a way to let me know you are okay".
Author : Maureen Pratt
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781585957866
Beyond Pain is an in-depth look at how people cano not only live with pain but come to see it and all suffering with the eyes of faith. This is also a book about two remarkable, pain-filled lives from Scripture, Job and Jesus. The author believes that Job has much to teach those in pain. He is like each of us, she says, human and trying to do the right thing out of our flawed-but-faithful hearts. And Jesus, of course is the prime example of accepting and embracing pain even as he died on the cross. Though many of us still need strength, courage, and self-awareness to build our faith and ministry, the author says, we have Jesus' light to guide us, and his example to emulate. This book challenges readers to follow the example of Job and most of all Jesus, in accepting pain and in believing there are many joys awaiting them, if they choose to reach out, look, hope and live...beyond pain. Her book is for anyone who lives with deep, life-altering pain and who wants to have more joy, faith, and purpose. As Job did. As Jesus did.
Author : Richard H. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199753091
Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an envied friend suffers a small setback? The truth is that joy in someone else's pain-known by the German word schadenfreude--permeates our society. In The Joy of Pain, psychologist Richard Smith, one of the world's foremost authorities on envy and shame, sheds much light on a feeling we dare not admit. Smith argues that schadenfreude is a natural human emotion, one worth taking a closer look at, as it reveals much about who we are as human beings. We have a passion for justice. Sometimes, schadenfreude can feel like getting one's revenge, when the suffering person has previously harmed us. But most of us are also motivated to feel good about ourselves, Smith notes, and look for ways to maintain a positive sense of self. One common way to do this is to compare ourselves to others and find areas where we are better. Similarly, the downfall of others--especially when they have seemed superior to us--can lead to a boost in our self-esteem, a lessening of feelings of inferiority. This is often at the root of schadenfreude. As the author points out, most instances of schadenfreude are harmless, on par with the pleasures of light gossip. Yet we must also be mindful that envy can motivate, without full awareness, the engineering of the misfortune we delight in. And envy-induced aggression can take us into dark territory indeed, as Smith shows as he examines the role of envy and schadenfreude in the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Filled with engaging examples of schadenfreude, from popular reality shows to the Duke-Kentucky basketball rivalry, The Joy of Pain provides an intriguing glimpse into a hidden corner of the human psyche.
Author : Roslyn M. Wyche-Hamilton
Publisher : Aphrodisia
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1599830906
In this emotionally compelling sequel to "Finding Joy in Pain," Joi and Jaylen prepare to start their new life together and are faced with unexpected obstacles that test the faith in their marriage. Original.
Author : Saloni Jain
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
The story ”Joy of Pain” is inclusive of my experience during my pregnancy. From the day I was told I was to become a mother soon and till the day my child was born, it was a complete rollercoaster ride. As soon as I gulped the good news, there was COVID-19 that came in as a dark flower and remained in my heart till I first time heard the joyous cries of my child. As COVID-19 brought with it negativity across the globe, I thought of turning it into positivity through my sketches. Whenever I used to get time, I always made it a point to sketch something and mark it with positive quotes. This continuous activity added a little spark of belief and assurance that everything will make its way and progress. I hope the readers will love it and that all the mothers-to-be will overcome any cynicism that comes their way with utmost happiness and a positive mindset. Thanks to all the readers who will be reading the book.
Author : Naomi Long Madgett
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0814348025
A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career. You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett's latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. Bill Harris, a 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist, said of the book, "Even with the evidence of over a half-century or more of first-rate poetic artistry by Madgett, this collection is a breath-arresting surprise and delight. Poem-by-poem and section-by-section amaze. Each poem in the collection is a master class in technique and in her ability to transpose an idea into a tightly composed example of the craft of poetry." You Are My Joy and Pain receives its name from the Billie Holiday song "Don't Explain" and is divided into three parts. The first part, "A Promise of Sun," contains fourteen poems relating to the hopeful and joyful beginning of a new relationship. The second part, "Trinity: A Dream Sequence," consists of twenty poems with religious imagery and encompasses both the beginning and the end of a relationship. The third part, "Stormy Weather," includes thirty-two poems that relate to the heartbreaking experience of a love gone wrong. These are not love poems in the abstract—the richness with which Madgett writes hints at the firsthand experience of a lifetime of loving. While several anthologies of love poems exist in the world, it is rare to find a single-author collection that so closely examines love in all of its messy and beautiful layers. Readers will identify with the hope and disappointment that Madgett presents in these poems.
Author : Tiffany Watt Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0316470295
An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. a cool guy swings back on his chair, and it tips over. a Celebrity Vegan is caught in the cheese aisle. an aggressive driver cuts you off - and then gets pulled over. your co-worker heats up fish in the microwave, then gets food poisoning. an urban unicyclist almost collides with a parked car. someone cuts the line for the ATM - and then it swallows their card. your effortlessly attractive friend gets dumped. We all know the pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. The Germans named this furtive delight in another's failure schadenfreude (from schaden damage, and freude, joy), and it has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries. Why can it be so satisfying to witness another's distress? And what, if anything, should we do about it? Schadenfreude illuminates this hidden emotion, inviting readers to reflect on its pleasures, and how we use other people's miseries to feel better about ourselves. Written in an exploratory, evocative form, it weaves examples from literature, philosophy, film, and music together with personal observation and historical and cultural analysis. And in today's world of polarized politics, twitter trolls and "sidebars of shame," it couldn't be timelier. Engaging, insightful, and entertaining, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about the role this much-maligned emotion plays in our lives -- perhaps even embracing it.
Author : Mavis Klein
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1780998376
If human life, as the author argues, is a constant and desperate bid to compensate for our mortality, then the desire to love and to be loved is our greatest imagined panacea against the fact of our death. In modern Western society our problems have changed: now, with our stomachs full, our need to feel we are struggling to survive has become increasingly focussed on a growing dissatisfaction and insecurity in our personal relationships. Drawing on her 35 years' experience as an individual and group psychotherapist, Mavis Klein here elaborates her original theory of five basic personality types, ten compound types, and fifteen ways in which the basic types interact with each other in our relationships to others. She clearly elucidates the behaviours that disguise our often self-induced pains, and how these pains can be transmuted into our greatest talents and joy. This book addresses the reality of the world we are so often unwilling to accept: the irrational and violent world of shame, doubt, guilt, fear, love and hate. ,