Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours : Eclipse of the Life Instinct


Charles. Stewart
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2007.
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables and plates; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's note; Introduction; Chapter 1 How the innate affects work; Chapter 2 Optimal vs. violent expression of affect: a new way to understand the emergence of each of these outcomes; Chapter 3 Death and rebirth of the life instinct; Chapter 4 Vivienne Loomis: suicide; Chapter 5 Kipland Kinkel: killing of parents and others; Chapter 6 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold: multiple homicides followed by suicides; Chapter 7 Sinedu Tadesse: homicide followed by suicide. - Chapter 8 Gloria: panic and homicide Peter: fury and killing of mother and sistersChapter 9 Little Father Time: homicides followed by suicide; Chapter 10 Lethal conditions and psychological treatment; Epilogue: the life instinct in historical perspective; Bibliography; Index. - Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours explores the primary motivational system in human beings. Based on the work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Louis Stewart and Silvan Tomkins, Charles Stewart investigates the psychology of the innate affects, with a focus towards the emotional motivation of adolescents and young adults who have killed others, themselves, or both.It is suggested that social isolation, dissociation of the personality, unbearable emotions, and possession by affects are necessary conditions for both homicide and suicide. Stewart argues that these conditions resu
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Dire emotions and lethal behaviours : eclipse of the life instinct
Charles T. Stewart

Bok · Engelsk · 2008

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