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Transforming our painful emotions : spiritual resources in anger, shame, grief, fear, and loneliness / Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2010.Description: viii, 213 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781570758706 (pbk.)
  • 1570758700 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BX2350.3 .W48 2010
Contents:
Part one. Transforming our passions -- 1. Emotions, our unlikely allies -- 2. Befriending our emotions -- Part two. Anger: an emergency emotion -- 3. Tracking the tigers of wrath -- 4. How we deal with our anger -- 5. An angry spirituality -- Part three. Guilt and shame: the price of belonging -- 6. Boundaries of belonging-- 7. Guises of guilt -- 8. Healthy shame -- 9. Transforming social shame -- Part four. Hidden gifts: grief, loneliness, fear -- 10. The gift of grief -- 11. Learning from loneliness -- 12. Finding fear as a friend -- 13. The Christian script for fear -- Conclusion. The way of the painful emotions -- 14. The way of the painful emotions.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. Transforming our passions -- 1. Emotions, our unlikely allies -- 2. Befriending our emotions -- Part two. Anger: an emergency emotion -- 3. Tracking the tigers of wrath -- 4. How we deal with our anger -- 5. An angry spirituality -- Part three. Guilt and shame: the price of belonging -- 6. Boundaries of belonging-- 7. Guises of guilt -- 8. Healthy shame -- 9. Transforming social shame -- Part four. Hidden gifts: grief, loneliness, fear -- 10. The gift of grief -- 11. Learning from loneliness -- 12. Finding fear as a friend -- 13. The Christian script for fear -- Conclusion. The way of the painful emotions -- 14. The way of the painful emotions.

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