Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune international perspectives on stress, laughter, and depression

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Warren, Bernie, 1953- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi 2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 31.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798401106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Collective Depression: Its Nature, Causation and Alleviation / William W. Bostock
  • A Study of Psychological Well-being, Job Satisfaction and Sources of Pressure of Medical Consultants and Post Graduate Students. / Vijayalaxmi A. Aminabhavi and Ajitha Dindigal
  • Evaluation of the Historical Recent Past: Humour as a Possible Collective Coping Strategy / Judit Ujlaky
  • The Medicalization of Emotions: Happiness and the Role of General Practice / Louise Woodward and Ian Shaw
  • Nervios: Lessons from Cuba’s Oriente / Traci Potterf
  • The Role of Negative Self-concept in Depression, Stress, and Anxiety of Married Women / Banoudokht Najafianpour
  • Hong Kong’s Female Sex Workers: Stress and Anxietyrelated Consequences of the Intersection of Poverty, Gender, Dangerous Work / Eleanor A. Holroyd , William C.W. Wong , Davina C. Ling and Ann Gray
  • We Aim To Pee: Unmasking the Secret Phobia and Reducing Performance Anxiety / Alex P.W. Gardner
  • Asylum Seekers in Australia: Turning Repression and Stress into long-term Anxiety and Depression / Harold A. Bilboe
  • The Hospital Clown: A Cross Boundary Character / Tom Doude van Troostwijk
  • Clown Language, Performance and Children’s Hospitals / Ana Achcar
  • LaughterBoss – The Court Jester in Aged Care / Dr. Peter Spitzer
  • “Nothing seems funny anymore”: Studying Burnout in Clown-Doctors / Nicole Gervais , Bernie Warren and Peter Twohig
  • Expressing Sensibilities: Healing Functions of Humour in Palliative Care / Ruth Anne Kinsman Dean
  • Collective Bibliography
  • Index.