The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering

Flourishing Despite Pain

Paul Marcus

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Routledge
16 July 2018

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychology: emotions; Psychotherapy

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective.

The book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of the troubling and challenging psychological experiences associated with love, work, faith, mental anguish, old age, and psychotherapeutic caregiving. Examining both the suffering of the patient and therapist, Paul Marcus provides pragmatic insights for changing one’s way of being to make suffering sufferable.

Written in a rich but accessible style, one that draws from ancient wisdom and spirituality, The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering provides an essential guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and their clients, and will also appeal to anyone who is interested in understanding how we suffer, why we suffer and what we can do about it.

By: Paul Marcus
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138482159
ISBN 10: 1138482153
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 16 July 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter One: Introduction: Making Suffering Sufferable Chapter Two: The Suffering of Love Chapter Three: The Suffering of Faith Chapter Four: The Suffering of Mental Anguish Chapter Five: The Suffering of Old Age Chapter Six: The Suffering of Work Chapter Seven: The Suffering of the Psychoanalyst Postface Index

Paul Marcus is a training and supervisory analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City and the author/editor of nineteen books.

Reviews for The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain

What a beautiful book on suffering. Is it incongruous to link beauty with suffering? Paul Marcus writes about our suffering aspects from many viewpoints, turning the fact of suffering around, opening it, bringing out ways it can lift us and we lift ourselves to dimensions of experience our being and soul is hungry for. A book to learn from and practice with. Michael Eigen, PhD. Author of Contact with the Depths, Faith and The Sensitive Self. Paul Marcus has written a tour de force on the problem of enduring, if not prevailing over, intense personal suffering connected to those domains of everyday experience that ‘really matter’, like love, faith, anxiety/depression, old age, work and professional caregiving. Brilliantly drawing from the great Axial philosophers and religious thinkers, and the Freudian oeuvre, he provides life affirming insights and pragmatic suggestions into the perennial problem of ‘making suffering sufferable.’ William B. Helmreich, Ph,D. Author of Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives they made in America.