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

Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune : international perspectives on stress, laughter and depression / edited by Bernie Warren.

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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Other Authors: Warren, Bernie, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 31.
Subjects:
Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Stress (Psychology) > Physiological aspects.
Social psychology.
social psychology.
SELF-HELP > Stress Management.
Social psychology
Stress (Psychology) > Physiological aspects
Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of 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.

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