Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul Valerie Muter After a long day at

After a long day at school

thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent

and how the culture of how clinicians work with them needs to change in order to achieve better results

Online downloadable content contains the teaching materials needed to implement the program

Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul Valerie Muter After a long day atRevealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe sadness, their coping mechanisms and their help seeking behaviours. Drawing from her study of practicing Catholics, contemplative monks and nuns, priests and laypeople studying theology, the author describes how symptoms that might otherwise be described as pathological and