Making sense of aggression, destructiveness and violence / Celia Harding -- Destructiveness: revenge, dysfunction or constitutional evil? / Robert Royston -- From biting teeth to biting wit: the normative development of aggression / Marianne Parsons -- Attachment, trauma and violence: understanding destructiveness from an attachment theory perspective / Paul Renn -- 'In pieces': the effects of the memory of a violent father on a son's development / Anne Harrison -- The problem of certain psychic realities: aggression and violence as perverse solutions / Stanley Ruszczynski -- Misanthropy and the broken mirror of narcissism: hatred in the narcissistic personality / David Mann -- The victim's revenge: 'he is "crime" and I am "punishment"' (Rigoletto) / Celia Harding -- Bullying, education and the role of psychotherapy / John Woods -- On a hiding to nothing? Work with women affected by violence / Rose Christie -- Some reflections on the connections between aggression and depression / Leon Kleimberg -- Destructive attacks on reality and the self / Richard Lucas -- 'Poison his delight': destructiveness and the ending of treatment / Anne Amos -- Absence and absent-mindedness / Mary Thomas
Summary
Brings together contributions from experienced psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists to explore the roots of aggression and the clinical dilemmas it presents in psychotherapy. It is for trainee and qualified psychodynamic counsellors, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
