Celia Harding (ed.)

Aggression and Destructiveness

Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Herausgeber: Harding, Celia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aggression is a part of human nature that energizes our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often, we focus on its more destructive aspects, such as the violence individuals inflict on themselves or others and overlook the positive functions of aggression. In "Aggression and Destructiveness "Celia Harding brings together contributions from experienced psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists to explore the roots of aggression and the clinical dilemmas it presents in psychotherapy. Beginning with accounts of aggression and destructiveness from a range of developmental and theoretical perspectives, the book provides useful insights into subjects including: - Bullying and abusive relationships - Male and female violence and destructiveness - Depressive, perverse and psychotic states of mind - Attacks on therapeutic treatment This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make senseof human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest to trainee and qualified psychodynamic counselors, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781583918852
• ISBN-10: 158391885X
• Artikelnr.: 22120321

Autorenporträt

Celia Harding is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice in East London and editor of Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Mapping the Terrain. Harding
Making Sense of Aggression
Destructiveness and Violence. Royston
Destructiveness: Revenge
Dysfunction or Constitutional Envy? Part II: Developmental and Theoretical Perspectives. Parsons
From Biting Teeth to Biting Wit: The Normative Development of Aggression. Renn
Attachment
Trauma and Violence: Understanding Destructiveness from an Attachment Theory Perspective. Harrison
'In Pieces': The Effects of the Memory of a Violent Father on a Son's Development. Ruszczynski
The Problem of Certain Psychic Realities: Aggression and Violence as Perverse Solutions. Part III: Destructiveness in Disguise and as Disguise. Mann
Misanthropy and the Broken Mirror of Narcissism: Hatred in the Narcissistic Personality. Harding
The Victim's Revenge: He is 'Crime' and I am 'Punishment' (Rigoletto). Woods
Bullying
Education and the Role of Psychotherapy. Christie
On a Hiding into Nothing? Work with Women Affected by Violence. Kleimberg
Some Reflections on the Connections Between Aggression and Depression. Lucas
Destructive Attacks on Reality and the Self. Amos
'Poison his Delight': Destructiveness and the Ending of Treatment. Thomas
Absence and Absent-mindedness.