The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation

Janoff‐Bulman, Ronnie; Berger, Andrea

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“…In this regard, we put forth Janoff-Bulman's definition of appreciation as most helpful to advancing research on appreciation. According to Janoff-Bulman and Berger [18], when we appreciate something there is an "Appraisal of increased value or worth … We increase its perceived value in our eyes" (p. 32). When our home appreciates, its monetary value increases.…”

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Gratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude

Watkins¹,

Frederick²,

Dodson³

2023

Happiness and Wellness - Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives

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In this chapter, we review recent research on the relationship between gratitude and happiness. First, we show how gratitude is a critical component of the good life. Because gratitude is vital to wellbeing, it is important to establish the causes of state and trait gratitude. We explain an appraisal approach to grateful emotion and show how certain benefit interpretations are critical to the experience of gratitude. In this context, we describe an encouraging new paradigm that has been applied to the study of gratitude: cognitive bias modification. This experimental approach has helped to establish the causal status of interpretations to gratitude, and we describe how this methodology should help to understand gratitude in future research. Recent research on the cognitive antecedents of gratitude has shown that the nature of the benefactor matters to experiences of gratitude, and in this regard, a divine benefactor may create a unique experience of gratitude. Gratitude scholars have now turned to the question: How does gratitude enhance happiness? We present research and theories that have attempted to speak to this issue. Finally, we explore the question: Who benefits most from gratitude interventions? Research has supplied some surprising answers to this question.

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Gratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude

Watkins¹,

Frederick²,

Dodson³

2023

Happiness and Wellness - Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives

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“…Es decir, cuando el malestar relacionado con el duelo es mínimo o pasajero, los dolientes son capaces de asimilar la experiencia de la pérdida en sus construcciones existentes del yo, el mundo y las relaciones, de modo que se necesitan pocos cambios. Pero, cuando las pérdidas son trágicamente prematuras, la muerte es violenta o injusta, o el doliente pierde una figura de apego que proporciona un sentido crucial de seguridad o validación para su identidad, el duelo puede ser mucho más profundo y prolongado, poniendo en cuestión supuestos clave que previamente sostenían el sistema de significados o la auto-narrativa del doliente (Janoff-Bulman, 1992;Neimeyer y Sands, 2011). La angustia resultante provoca un intento de dar sentido a la pérdida y sus implicaciones para el mundo asumido por el doliente, lo que resulta en una reconstrucción potencialmente arrolladora del significado (Neimeyer, 2019).…”

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Crecimiento Personal a Raíz de la Pérdida por Suicidio

Neimeyer

Bottomley²,

Bellet³

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“…The psychologist’s purported task, as expert and professional, is to heal traumatic wounds by understanding it, and by making suffering intelligible. In the work of Janoff-Bulman and Berg (1998), Yalom (2008), or van der Kolk (2007) there is a telos oriented toward meaning-making which is also simultaneously healing-making. It is assumed that in the catharsis of expression and the intelligible meaning, that is, in the act of speaking, of confessing, lies the healing moment for the suffering other.…”

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Making of a crisis: The political and clinical implications of psychology’s globalization.

Dhar¹,

Dixit²

2022

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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This article examines how the discipline of Psychology creates certain forms of crises, often in the service of fundamentalism and neoliberal capitalism. We trace Psychology's neoliberal allegiances in order to show how uncritical psychologization, through the dual process of interiorization and individualization, has contributed to a re-interpretation of the Kashmiri Pandit refugee crisis in India. The discourse of the Psy-disciplines, most uniquely trauma theory, retroactively re-created the experience of Kashmiri Pandits, and reproduced conditions leading to increased Islamophobia across the nation. The article then explores how similar processes are reflected and negotiated in clinical practice, and how unthinking utilization of psychological discourse can overpower the therapeutic space to reproduce its own ideology at the cost of the client's experience and priorities. These investigations are done via a self-reflective analysis undertaken by the two authors, Ayurdhi Dhar (AD) and Sugandh Dixit (SD), in their respective areas of expertise: the renarrativization of the Kashmiri exodus and Psychology's clinical recuperation of the experience of early orphan-hood, respectively. It is then suggested that in exporting Euro-American theories of trauma, ideas of health, concepts of healing, and values such as resilience and individual responsibility, Psychology intentionally or unintentionally creates certain forms of internal crisis through retroactive meaning-making. We then propose the concept of aproductive suffering, a meaning (less) form of distress which acts as revolutionary practice and as an antidote to this recuperation. Public Significance StatementThis article reveals how the Psy-disciplines are co-opted by neoliberal policies and nationalist ideology in order to reshape people's experience of themselves. This is done through a critical investigation of the "trauma" and the "hero" narrative as applied to the refugee and orphan conditions. The concept of aproductive suffering is forwarded as a way to understand devastation and distress while resisting neoliberal ethics.

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The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation

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Gratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude

Gratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude

Crecimiento Personal a Raíz de la Pérdida por Suicidio

Making of a crisis: The political and clinical implications of psychology’s globalization.

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