The Courage to Suffer
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Sara A. Showalter Van Tongeren
Templeton Press / Liverpool University Press
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A New Clinical Framework for Life’s Greatest Crises
In The Courage to Suffer, Daryl and Sara Van Tongeren introduce a new therapeutic framework that helps people flourish in the midst of suffering by cultivating meaning.
Suffering is an inescapable part of life. Some suffering is so profound, so violating, or so dogged that it fundamentally changes people in indelible ways. Many existing therapeutic approaches, from a medical model, treat suffering as mental illness and seek a curative solution. However, such approaches often fail to examine the deep questions that suffering elicits (e.g., existential themes of death, isolation, freedom, identity, and meaninglessness) and the far-reaching ways in which suffering affects the lived experience of each individual.
Drawing from scientific research, clinical examples, existential and positive psychology, and their own personal stories of loss and sorrow, Daryl and Sara’s integrative model blends the rich depth of existential clinical approaches with the growth focus of strengths-based approaches. Through cutting-edge research and clinical case examples, they detail five “phases of suffering” and how to work with a client’s existential concerns at each phase to develop meaning. They also discuss how current research suggests to build a flourishing life, especially for those who have endured, and are enduring, suffering.
Daryl and Sara show how those afflicted with suffering, while acknowledging the reality of their pain, can still choose to live with hope.
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Daryl R. Van Tongeren
Daryl R. Van Tongeren, PhD, is a psychology professor at Hope College and the director of the Frost Center for Social Science Research. His research focuses on the processes of leaving religion, summarized in his popular book, Done. His work has been covered in The New York Times and The Atlantic. He has won multiple awards and fellowships, including being named a rising star by the Association for Psychological Science and receiving early career awards from APA's Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality and the International Society for the Scientific of Existential Psychology. Follow his work on his website.