Humanizing Evil

Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Naso, Ronald C; Mills, Jon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil. Freud saw it as a direct expression of unconscious forces, whereas more recent theorists have examined the links between early traumatic experiences and later 'evil' behaviour. Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives explores the controversies surrounding definitions of evil, and examines its various forms, from the destructive forces contained within the normal mind to the most horrific expressions observed in contemporary life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138828537
• ISBN-10: 113882853X
• Artikelnr.: 44146754

Autorenporträt

Ronald C. Naso, Ph.D., ABPP,　 is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in independent practice in Stamford, CT. The author of numerous papers on psychoanalytic topics, he is an associate editor of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies and contributing editor of Division/Review and the Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry.　 His book, Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity, was published by Aronson in 2010. Jon Mills, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist.　 He is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto.　 A 2006, 2011 and 2013 Gradiva Award winner, he is editor of three book series in psychoanalysis, on the editorial board for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the author and/or editor of 13 books including his most recent works, Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics and Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, which won the Goethe Award for best book in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Overview-Ronald C. Naso. Part I: Formulating Evil. The
Essence of Evil. The Psychoanalytical Relevance of Jacob Böhme's Concept of
Evil. Demonic Consciousness: Jungian Approaches to Understanding Evil. II:
The Psychology of Perpetration. Breaking Bad and the Rhetoric of Evil.
Predatory Identity. The Psychodynamics of Evil: Motives Behind Acts of
Extreme Violence in Peacetime.Part III: Clinical Applications. Trauma and
Evil: Questions of Ethics and Aesthetics for a Profession in Crisis.
Witnessing Evil.