COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE The nature and function of aggression -- Discussion of Donald Campbell'spaper -- CHAPTER TWO Which violence and whose violence? Questions arising in the psychotherapy of aggressive children -- Discussion of Anne Alvarez's paper -- CHAPTER THREE Violence to body and mind: treating patients who have killed -- Discussion of Carine Minne's paper -- CHAPTER FOUR The interpretation of violence -- Discussion of James Gilligan's paper -- CHAPTER FIVE From action to communication: the transformation of aggression in childhood -- CHAPTER SIX Aggression and violence in adolescence -- Discussion of Marianne Parsons' paper -- CHAPTER SEVEN The perverse fascination of destructiveness -- Discussion of Paola Capozzi and Franco De Masi's paper -- CHAPTER EIGHT Aggression: social and political aspects -- Discussion of Lord Alderdice's paper -- CHAPTER NINE Plenary session -- Closing remarks by Philip McGarry -- INDEX.