Good Stuff: Generosity, Resilience, Humility, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Salman Akhtar
Language: English
Pages: 171
ISBN: 2:00292346
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains chapters on Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice. Together, the six chapters constitute a harmonious gestalt of the relational scenarios that assure enrichment of human experience.
This book offers socio-clinical meditations to temper Freud's view that human beings are essentially 'bad' and whatever goodness they can muster is largely defensive.
By elucidating the origins, dynamics, social pleasures, and clinical benefits of courage, resilience, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, and sacrifice, this book sheds light on a corner of human experience that has remained inadequately understood by psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals.
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supportive strangers and non-familiar caretakers, the ethical imperative to bear witness, the contribution of superior intellect in adaptively dealing with psychic endangerment, but above all, the ever-sustaining strength of good internal objects (Parens’ mother was surely more than “good-enough”) in leading to the gestalt of what we call “resilience.” In a commentary upon an abridged version of this autobiography (Parens, 2008), Shapiro (2008) emphasized the healing powers of creating personal
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