Psychology of Hope: A Biblical Response to Tragedy and Suicide (Revised, Expanded)

by Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan

Book Overview

This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it. Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802832717
• ISBN13: 9780802832719
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"