Abstract

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1969, Vol 14(2), 100-101. Reviews the book, Disease, Pain, and Sacrifice: Toward a Psychology of Suffering by David Bakan (see record 1968-09628-000). This book consists of three essays hinged on the concept of suffering. The author's aim is to consider suffering from three aspects: disease, from the biological viewpoint; pain, behaviorally and phenomenologically; and sacrifice, from an existential framework. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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