Carrying the Pain: The Journey from Suffering to Transformation—Perspectives from Shakespearean Tragedy and Pastoral Care

This paper proposes an admittedly difficult thesis that emotional pain and suffering can be good news. Rather than denying and running from emotional pain and suffering, we suggest embracing and carrying the pain. Through academic and spiritual writings, an observation of Hamlet's tragic suffer...

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Published in:Journal of religion and health 2013-06, Vol.52 (2), p.467-474
Main Authors: Minton, Mary E., Antonen, Kathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acronyms
Aging
Clinical Psychology
Emotional distress
Heroes
Humans
Literature, Modern
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nurses
Nursing education
Original Paper
Pain
Pain and suffering
Pastoral Care - methods
Public Health
Religious Studies
Spirituality
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Suffering
Theater
Theology
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Summary:This paper proposes an admittedly difficult thesis that emotional pain and suffering can be good news. Rather than denying and running from emotional pain and suffering, we suggest embracing and carrying the pain. Through academic and spiritual writings, an observation of Hamlet's tragic suffering, an examination of pastoral care case study data, and a B.L.E.S.S. acronym, this paper proposes that within the experience of suffering lies the transformative potential for meaning and fullness.
ISSN:0022-4197
1573-6571
DOI:10.1007/s10943-011-9495-3