Revenge

On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming

Tomas Bohm, Suzanne Kaplan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-32668-5 (ISBN)

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Focuses on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday life to the extreme societal destructiveness of genocide. Are perpetrators always avengers? What is the destructive potential of ordinary people?

The authors in this book focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday life to the extreme societal destructiveness of genocide. Are perpetrators always avengers? What is the destructive potential of ordinary people? Envy

Tomas Bohm was a training psychoanalyst in private practice in Sweden, and author or co-author of a number of books dealing with xenophobia, racism and fundamentalism. He was a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Prejudice Committee. Suzanne Kaplanis a practicing child and training psychoanalyst. Researcher at The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. Publications include 'Children in Genocide - Extreme traumatization and affect regulation' (2008). Recipient of the Hayman Prize for published work pertaining to traumatized children and adults in both 2001 and 2007.

Foreword -- AUTHORS' FOREWORD -- Introduction -- Revenge -- The revenge motif -- The psychology of the revenge spiral-revenge or restoration -- The grey zone between revenge and restoration -- The destructive group -- Revenge on the societal level: large groups, ideologies, and political systems -- Why does the revenge spiral continue? Among victims and perpetrators -- Revenge in everyday life-relationships in couples -- Revenge from a gender perspective: abuse of women -- Extreme collective violence: the example of Rwanda -- Restoration -- Refraining from revenge -- Surviving psychic trauma -- Stopping the revenge spiral -- Restoration and reconciliation

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-367-32668-X / 036732668X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-32668-5 / 9780367326685
Zustand	Neuware