Cruelty, Violence and Murder.
Title:
Cruelty, Violence and Murder.
Author:
Williams, Arthur Hyatt.
ISBN:
9781849402620
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (370 pages)
Series:
KARNAC
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART I -- Chapter 1-Aggression and Death -- Chapter 2-The Death Constellation (I) -- Chapter 3-The Indigestible Idea of Death -- Chapter 4-The Death Constellation (II) -- Chapter 5-Other Manifestations of the Death Constellation -- PART II -- Chapter 6-The Nature of Aggression -- Chapter 7-Violence and Psychic Indigestion -- Chapter 8-Escalating Violence -- Chapter 9-Cruelty and Cruel Behavior -- Chapter 10-Brutalization and Recivilization, or Wildness and Civilizing for the First Time -- Chapter 11-Latent Murderousness -- PART III -- Chapter 12-Assessment and Risk -- Chapter 13-Engagement and Treatment -- Chapter 14-From Fantasy to Impulse Action: Is This Reversible with Psychotherapy? -- Chapter 15-Reparation -- Chapter 16-The Micro-Environment -- PART IV -- Chapter 17-The Individual and Organized Crime -- Chapter 18-Victims and Victimology (I) -- Chapter 19-Victims and Victimology (II) -- Chapter 20-Drugs: Dependence on an Unreliable Container -- Chapter 21-Countertransference in the Psychotherapy of Violent Prisoners -- Chapter 22-Criminality and the Claustrum -- PART V -- Chapter 23-Antidevelopmental Processes in Adolescents -- Chapter 24-Antidevelopmental Sexuality in Adolescents -- Chapter 25-Othello -- Chapter 26-Life-Threatening Illness -- Chapter 27-Restoring the Balance -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers serving life-sentences in England are among the subjects of this in-depth psychological study of what makes people kill.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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