Violence 'mercurial gestalt'

“One afternoon, a patient who had been in three times weekly ... psychotherapy ... left my office after her session, drove down to the train tracks half a mile from my office, and sat down facing an oncoming train.” This tragic event opens the essay by psychoanalyst Susanne Chassay who explores the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Levin, Tobe (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York : Rodopi 2008.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 47.
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Cultures of violence.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798376306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Tobe Levin
  • Violence: “Mercurial Gestalt” / Tobe Levin
  • Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-Violent Behaviour / Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer
  • E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union / Oleg Piletsky
  • From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency / Jessica Wolfendale
  • A Literature of Terror and Mourning / Kaiama L. Glover
  • Hurtling Toward Darkness Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World / Susanne Chassay
  • Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film 1992-2001 / Larissa N. Niec , Elizabeth V. Brestan and Linda Anne Valle
  • Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse / Tobe Levin
  • Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History / M.K. Flynn and Tony King
  • Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Karen Lysaght
  • Racism and Violence : Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones / Eleonore Wildburger
  • The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumours and Massacre in the Japanese Empire / Jin-hee Lee
  • When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence / William Vlach
  • Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America “Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death”: / Vivien Miller
  • Notes on Contributors.