Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and CreativityThough the causes of violence in our society are complex, the troublesome human emotions of anger and rage play a central role in the genesis of violent behavior and psychopathology in general. In this provocative book, clinical and forensic psychologist Stephen A. Diamond determines where rage and anger originate and explores whether these powerful passions are--as most people resume--purely negative, pathological, and evil or can be meaningfully redeemed and redirected into constructive activity. Using clinical and biographical case studies, as well as striking visual images, he traces anger, rage, and violence through their most destructive expressions to their creative and transcendent functions in art, psychotherapy, and spirituality. |
Contents
The Animosity Between | 33 |
Madness Mental Disorders | 137 |
Creativity Genius and the Daimonic | 255 |
Some Final Reflections | 299 |
NOTES | 313 |
| 355 | |
| 377 | |
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Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence ... Stephen A. Diamond No preview available - 1999 |
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