What Doesn't Kill Us

Stephen Joseph is a professor of psychology, health and social care at the University of Nottingham, where he is the cluster co-ordinator for counselling and psychotherapy training in the School of Education. Previously he was co-director of the university's Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth and an honorary consultant psychologist in psychotherapy in the Nottinghamshire NHS Trust. He worked with survivors and bereaved families of the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy and was consulted by the media during the Chilean mining crisis. He is a registered health and counselling psychologist and a senior practitioner member of the British Psychological Society register of psychologists who specialise in psychotherapy. He is on the editorial board of several leading journals; has published more than two academic papers and written or edited ten books; and been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences.

We live in a world in which suffering is endemic. In this book, Stephen Joseph sounds a hopeful note. Suffering need not destroy