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David A. Karp

The Burden of Sympathy

How Families Cope With Mental Illness

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What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw boundaries of sympathy to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one.Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a so… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-802870-3
  • EAN: 9780198028703
  • Produktnummer: 13935349
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 13'816 KB

Über den Autor


David A. Karp is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. His book Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness (OUP, 1996) won the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

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