ABSTRACT
The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems and cultures which are mass oriented?" One of the most interesting changes in contemporary thinking has been the emphasis on the unique person. While the distinction between a person (a unique rational being) and individual (one of several similar things) has long existed, it is in the twentieth century that we seem to have become fully conscious of this distinction. There is good reason for such as emphasis today. Repeatedly in this century the case of the person was deemed less important than some policy. Innocent persons slaughtered in the name of some "ism," political bombings and kidnappings, and mass unemployment to name but a few. The cause of our dehumanization seems to be the reduction of the individual person to a part of the political, economic or religious system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|119 pages
Theoretical Considerations
part II|68 pages
The Needs of Particular Groups
chapter Chapter 10|24 pages
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”—The Aftermath of Suicide
chapter Chapter 13|10 pages
Growing Beyond Survival: Grief Experiences of Children from Dysfunctional Families
part III|55 pages
Lessons from Traditions
chapter Chapter 15|8 pages
Suicide Prevention Consultation In Canada’s Northwest Territories: A Personal Account
chapter Chapter 16|18 pages
Psychocultural Influences on African-American Attitudes towards Death, Dying and Funeral Rites
part IV|7 pages
Special Questions