Aggression: From Fantasy to Action

ISBN-13: 9781855758919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 254 str.

Paul Williams

Opis

This book is a result of the second International Psychoanalytic Conference, -Aggression: From Fantasy to Action- held May 2010. It contains papers that were delivered at the conference, together with edited summaries of discussions from the floor that followed each paper. In the papers is a noticeable intensity of focus on understanding, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the origins of aggression and violence.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- The nature and function of aggression -- Discussion of Donald Campbell's paper -- Which violence and whose violence? Questions arising in the psychotherapy of aggressive children -- Discussion of Anne Alvarez's paper -- Violence to body and mind: treating patients who have killed -- Discussion of Carine Minne's paper -- The interpretation of violence -- Discussion of James Gilligan's paper -- From action to communication: the transformation of aggression in childhood -- Aggression and violence in adolescence -- Discussion of Marianne Parsons' paper -- The perverse fascination of destructiveness" -- Discussion of Paola Capozzi and Franco De Masi's paper -- Aggression: social and political aspects -- Discussion of Lord Alderdice's paper -- Plenary session -- Closing remarks by Philip McGarry

O autorze

Paul Williams