The Positive Power of Sadness: How Good Grief Prevents and Cures Anxiety, Depression, and Anger
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Overview
Written by two clinical psychologists with nearly a century of combined experience, this book explains how people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or undue anger can overcome these difficulties by allowing the normal process of grieving to occur.
Sadness is generally characterized as a negative emotion, yet experiencing sadness plays a positive and key role in achieving and maintaining mental health and in avoiding anxiety, depression, and anger. Indeed, sadness can be understood as a normal and necessary feeling that always occurs when one loses something that is loved. The Positive Power of Sadness examines the experience of sadness, taking into account the personal, relational, and neurological factors of sadness; explains the cultural reasons that many resist feeling sad and consequently displace sadness into secondary processes; and provides a practical and systematic way to overcome anger, anxiety, and depression by allowing the normal process of being sad to occur.
This simple paradigm of love and loss causing joy and sorrow in tandem is founded on solid research, carefully considered theory, and extensive experience and will serve to stimulate further thought and writing. Professional therapists, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and clergy who work with people in various settings will find this enlightening reading, as will general readers seeking self-help or possessing an interest in psychological functioning or relational difficulties.
Written by two clinical psychologists with nearly a century of combined experience, this book explains how people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or undue anger can overcome these difficulties by allowing the normal process of grieving to occur.
Provides a solid foundation for understanding anger, anxiety, and depression as well as a practical and solid approach for overcoming these difficulties
Examines the neurological factors associated with feelings, particularly sadness, and identifies the relational complications that arise when one experiences sadness
Describes the cultural and personal resistance to the experience of sadness that often compels people to keep their sadness "bottled up"
Explains how anger, anxiety, and depression can be prevented by accepting and experiencing sadness
Series Editor’s Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Not My Daughter
Chapter 2 Daily Grief: "The Little Sads"
Chapter 3 Different Kinds of Losses
Chapter 4 Loss of Relationships
Chapter 5 Why We Don’t Grieve
Chapter 6 Depression and Anxiety: Sadness Disguised
Chapter 7 How to Do Sadness
Annotated Bibliography
Index
- Title: The Positive Power of Sadness: How Good Grief Prevents and Cures Anxiety, Depression, and Anger
- Authors: Ron Johnson, Deb Brock
- Series: Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
- Publisher: Praeger
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 168
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216130673
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216130673
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T16:00:52Z
Ron Johnson and Deb Brock, husband and wife, are clinical psychologists who have been in private practice for a combined total of 90 years.