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The burden of sympathy : how families cope with mental illness / David A. Karp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karp, David Allen, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Family relationships.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Home care.
- Caregivers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is a compassionate exploration of how to maintain one's own mental health while caring for others. The author has been working in this field for two decades and has gained a reputation for being an incisive analyst of everyday life.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: Illness and Obligation; TWO: Bearing Responsibility; THREE: Managing Emotions; FOUR: Family Ties; FIVE: The Four Cs; SIX: Surviving the System; SEVEN: Caring in Postmodern America; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773483-9
- 0-19-028824-8
- 1-280-83768-3
- 9786610837687
- 0-19-802870-9
- OCLC:
- 428979632
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