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SPIRITUALITY AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE FACE OF SUFFERING AND ILLNESS
Stefano Tognacci
; Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy
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This contribution aims to explore the main aspects and concerns due to suffering and illness in psychological and spiritual terms.
It will be given to everyone in life to make experiences of suffering and sickness - even if for the latter not necessarily in the first
person -, dramas and fundamental faces of humanity inaggirabili of our earthly pilgrimage, despite the narcissism of a society that
tends to anesthetize every little human pain and suffering. In general one is never fully equipped to face suffering and illness,
especially when it involves a lot of pain, and basically all possible declensions to understand them fail, at least partially, the
enterprise. Without any pretension of resolving the issue, occasionally bringing it up may offer or remind us of the existence of some
possibility of meaning and significance, thus contributing to greater understanding and acceptance. Appealing to the Bible and to
Christ himself, and particularly to some extremely significant experiences, including the figure of Job and the experience of V.
Frankl, the "nonsense" of suffering and illness could take on an unthought out meaning and face, and encounter a healing that goes
beyond the purely, though important, corporal. The revisitation of the psychological and spiritual dimensions, the latter not always
easily accepted, sometimes completely rejected, could thus become weapons and support in the common and often daily intrusiveness
of suffering and illness. Thus, after a brief anthropological passage, these will be addressed in their main psychological and spiritual
dimensions, in order to find possible ways of meaning, which often seemingly or superficially seems impossible to exist.
Ključne riječi
pain; illness; meaning; suffering; spi
Hrčak ID:
272227
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Datum izdavanja:
19.10.2021.
Posjeta: 440 *