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The dynamics of human aggression : theoretical foundations, clinical applications / by Ana-María Rizzuto, W.W. Meissner, and Dan H. Buie.
Van Pelt Library BF175.5.A36 R59 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rizzuto, Ana-Maria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aggressiveness.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Aggression--psychology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Medical Subjects:
- Aggression--psychology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Physical Description:
- x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.
- Summary:
- The Understanding of Aggression within psychoanalysis has been much controverted and debated and to this day remains unsettled. The Dynamics of Human Aggression challenges the widely accepted view of aggression as involving hostility, anger, or destructiveness, and proposes a paradigm shift of the psychoanalytic theory of aggression. The book conceptualizes aggression as the capacity of the mind to overcome any obstacle, external or internal, conscious, preconscious, or unconscious, interfering with the completion of an intended action. It advances a single motivational concept to encompass all varieties of aggression. Propelling the theory forward on both the conceptual and clinical fronts, this comprehensive text carefully reviews the various theories of aggression from Freud to the present. In clear and accessible language, it provides an exhaustive review of the literature, proposes a new metapsychology to support this reworking, and traces the impact of this change on analytic theory and technique. Effectively humanizing aggression, this innovative text makes the various theories of aggression more understandable in terms of common human experience, matching current theory with what actually occurs in the analytic or therapeutic setting.
- Contents:
- Aggression in psychoanalysis : from drive to motivational theory
- Other theories
- A case of aggression in analysis : "I always hurt the one I love
- and like it"
- The agent of aggressive action
- Aggression as motivation
- Affects and aggression
- Developmental perspectives on aggression
- Aggression in phobic states
- The role of aggression in sadomasochism
- Aggression in the analysis of male hysteric
- Intensive psychotherapy of aggression in a borderline personality
- Aggression in the analytic process : technical considerations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415945917
- OCLC:
- 52128267
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