On being with suffering
pp. 335-357
in: Ronald Valle (ed), Phenomenological inquiry in psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1998Abstract
Each day the television news is filled with film of dying children, slaughtered human beings, starving and war-ravaged humanity. Each day millions of people watch and then do something with that which they have witnessed. They may store it, ignore it, harden to it, self-medicate, or respond to it with action. Suffering is not only on our televisions, it is in our lives.