The virtues of the deceased were many ; his wise counsels to the king made him reknowned in peace as well as in war . ... but a noble and courageous spirit should be above weeping : L'on pardonne les pleurs aux personnes comunes ...
The Crying Book
Marjory E. Lange , Telling Tears in the English Renaissance ( Leiden : Brill , 1996 ) . 11 Thomas Dixon , Weeping Britannia : Portrait of a Nation in Tears ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 ) . Among other studies dedicated to ...
Schaffer , H. Rudolph . “ The Development of Interpersonal Behaviour . ” In Introducing Social Psychology : An Analysis of Individual Reaction and Response , edited by Henri Tajfel and Colin Fraser .
Until now no studies have been undertaken to make systematic comparisons of what is happening in the brain, when comparing the following three states, namely sadness without tears and crying, sadness with tears and crying, and tears and ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist who had commanded a regiment of black soldiers in the Union army. Higginson had visited the Darwins at their home in Kent in 1872 and, back in Newport, Rhode Island, ...
In a comprehensive look at crying through the life cycle, this insightful volume presents a novel theoretical framework before offering useful and practical advice for dealing with this most fundamental of human behaviors.
Wordsworth : quoted in Fred Kaplan , Sacred Tears : Sentimentality in Victorian Literature ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 ) , 41 . Obermann : Sénancour , Obermann [ 1804 ] ( Paris : Éditions 10/18 , 1965 ) , letter 15 ...
The book includes comparisons of Hebrew Psalms and Akkadian prayers with reference to modern scientific research on weeping.
Describes research into the psychological and biochemical aspects of crying and examines the role of crying in emotional health
Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal?