Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

ISBN 10: 158391885X / ISBN 13: 9781583918852

Published by Routledge, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158391885X
• ISBN 13: 9781583918852
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?

How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence

Aggression is a part of human nature that energises 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 sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest to trainee and qualified psychodynamic counsellors, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

About the Author

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