Ever wondered about the variety of counselling and clinical responses to sadness? Wish you could contribute to professional debates about the diagnosis and management of depression? Want to learn about human emotions beyond the simplistic duality of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’? Dying to learn more about the psychology of the horror genre and gothic subcultures? Feed your curiosity and advance your clinical skills with this evidence-informed and hands-on interdisciplinary adventure. Using short video clips and articles showing lived experience, readings from peer- reviewed research, and interactive class explorations, we will investigate diverse socioeconomic, community, neuroendocrine, and psychological approaches to sadness. Along our immersive journey, we will critically evaluate ‘the medicalisation of misery’; explore the latest findings from peer-reviewed research; experience fascinating traditional and emerging cross-cultural approaches to sadness, mourning, and final stage of life rituals, including the Death Doula and Death Café phenomena; practice diverse therapeutic techniques for responding to sadness and misery; explore political, ethical, and social justice dimensions of pathologising sadness; build proficiency in key debates that affect public policy; and explore exciting new ways that psychologists can respond to sadness in clinical and counselling settings. This course is designed for future clinical or counselling psychologists, therapists, researchers, and students interested in cross-cultural diversity, human rights, and social inequalities.