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1 online resource (iv, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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At the interface/probing the bounderies ; v. 31
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 31.
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International conference proceedings. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 international and inter-disciplinary perspective on the subject. Contributors to this volume come not only from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds but also from many parts of the globe. They speak of universal truths and of site-specific concerns. They do not all speak with one voice and s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
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Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects. |
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Stress (Psychology) |
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Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects.
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Stress (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects. |
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Social psychology.
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Social psychology. |
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Stress, Psychological. |
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Anxiety. |
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Depressive Disorder. |
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Laughter Therapy. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Warren, Bernie, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007 9789042021488 9042021489 (OCoLC)122260286 |
| ISBN |
9781429480611 (electronic book) |
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1429480610 (electronic book) |
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9789401203951 |
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9401203954 |
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9789042021488 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9042021489 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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