The Resilient Spirit Transforming Suffering

Young-Eisendrath teaches readers how to learn from their hardships by drawing on the traditions that have enriched her life experience--the theories of Jung, the practice of psychoanalysis, and the teachings of Buddhism--as well as the stories of people who have faced tremendous downfall and come through it. "An edifying work on the stewardship of pain".--"Body Mind Spirit".

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Burlington, Vermont. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College, she has published ten books, including Women and Desire, You're Not What I Expected, and The Cambridge Companion to Jung.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(4)

PART ONE The Gifts

5

(22)

My Story

15

(4)

Turning Lead Into Gold

19

(5)

Why Life Is Interesting

24

(3)

PART TWO Suffering and Compassion

27

(34)

A Parable of Suffering and Compassion

35

(14)

Mapping Our Personal Complexes

49

(12)

PART THREE Some Advantages of a Difficult Childhood

61

(38)

What Protects the Resilient?

67

(5)

Help

72

(9)

Hope

81

(5)

Meaning

86

(8)

Hidden Benefits

94

(5)

PART FOUR Letting the Self Die

99

(40)

No Essential Self

111

(8)

Letting Her Old Self Die

119

(10)

Whole and Dependent

129

(10)

PART FIVE An Ethic of Suffering

139

(48)

Transcendent Function

149

(8)

Karmic Growing Pains

157

(12)

Negative Emotions

169

(9)

Rebirth

178

(9)

PART SIX Lessons

187

(8)

Appendix

195

(4)

Notes

199

(38)

Bibliography

237

(12)

Index

249

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