The Dynamics of Human Aggression
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2004
- Cover : Hardback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 92586
- ISBN 13 : 9780415945912
- ISBN 10 : 0415945917
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Aggression is often thought of as involving hostility, anger, or destructiveness. The authors of book challenge this view, and justify their new theory to readers on both the theoretical and clinical fronts.
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Aggression is often thought of as involving hostility, anger, or destructiveness. In the context of analysis, this view is based on the concept of aggression as an impersonal instinctive drive that forces the subject to act destructively, requiring defensive responses to control it. The Dynamics of Human Aggression challenges this view, proposing instead that aggression is best conceptualised as the capacity of the mind to carry out any psychic or physical activity directed to overcoming any obstacle interfering with the completion of an intended internal or external action. This new paradigm advances a single concept to encompass all varieties of aggression. To put forth and justify their new theory to readers on both the theoretical and clinical fronts, the authors have reviewed the main theoretical selections of the field from Freud to contemporary writers, and offer a wide range of clinical accounts.
Contents:
Part 1: Toward a New View of Aggression in Analysis. Aggression in Psychoanalysis: Paradigm Shift from Drive to Motivational Theory. Other Theories. A Case of Aggression in Analysis: 'I Always Hurt the One I Love'. Part 2: Theoretical Perspective. The Agent of Aggressive Action. Aggression as Motivation. Affects and Aggression. Developmental Perspectives on Aggression. Part 3: Clinical Perspectives. Aggression in Phobic States. The Role of Aggression in SadoMasochism. Aggression in the Analysis of Male Hysteria. Intensive Psychotherapy of Aggression in a Borderline Personality. Aggression in the Analytic Process: Technical Considerations. References.
About the Editor(s)
Argentine born Ana-Maria Rizzuto trained in psychoanalysis in Boston and was for forty years in the PINE Psychoanalytic Center Faculty and is Training and Supervisory Analyst Emerita. She has made significant contributions to the psychoanalysis of religious experience and has written in national and international journals about the significance of words in the clinical situation. She has written three books and lectured about her work in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Japan.
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