On Loss and Losing: Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress

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Preface	p. ix
Call Me Crazy!
The Legend of the Neurotic Wolf; Social Killers; A Trip to the Hospital; A Historic Error	p. 1
Witches, Mad Doctors, and Pseudo-Sociologists
The Bad Old Days; The Coming of Wisdom; The Arrival of Compassion; Psychotherapy and Deinstitutionalization; "Medical" Sociology; Moral Arbiters; Sociological Lapses	p. 25
On Losing
Sore Losers; Loss; Losing; The Loss/Losing Nexus; The Social/Suffering Connection; Loss/Losing and the DSM Disorders; A Caveat	p. 59
Resocialization
A Sovereign Remedy; The Repetition Compulsion; Denial; Protest; Sadness; Renegotiation	p. 99
Roles
The Division of Labor; Traits versus Roles; Role Scripts; Role Partners; Dysfunctional Roles; Gender Roles	p. 135
Ranks
King of the Mountain; Roles and Functions; Leaders and Tyrants; Caste and Class; Situational Stupidity; Bureaucracies	p. 173
Relationships
Intimacy; Relationship Negotiations; Sex; Choosing a Partner; Courtship; Divorce; The Children of Divorce	p. 211
Beliefs
Cognitive Communities; Irrationality; Faith; Lies; Pseudoscience	p. 247
Morality
Moral Communities; Moral Logic; Hardball without an Umpire; For the Greater Good?; Idealism; Values; Character	p. 275
Beyond the Utopias
A Distinction with a Difference; Accepting Limits; Amelioration; Cyclic Therapy	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 355
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