Despair and the Return of Hope

"In this profound the literate work, Peter Shabad shows how people can move from disillusionment and despair, through the mourning of losses, to the ultimate return of hope. When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and begin to fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer.

This can lead individuals to memorialize past sufferings through psychological symptoms and compulsive repetitions."--BOOK JACKET.