The Psychology of Vampires

Informationen zum Autor David Cohen is a psychologist, film maker, writer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. His books include the best-selling Diana, Death of a Goddess on the controversies surrounding the Princess' death and Great Psychologists as Parents , and his film on the Soham murders was nominated for a BAFTA award. Klappentext From sanguinarians who drink blood, to psychic vampires who suck the energy from those around them, The Psychology of Vampires explores the absorbing connections between vampirism and psychology, theology, medicine and culture. Zusammenfassung From sanguinarians who drink blood, to psychic vampires who suck the energy from those around them, The Psychology of Vampires explores the absorbing connections between vampirism and psychology, theology, medicine and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Aperitif - The Vampires' Favourite Ice Cream Chapter 1- Poor Polidori and the Human Jam Chapter 2 The Early History of Vampires. Chapter 3 Dracula on the couch Chapter 4 - The doctor who wanted to be something different Chapter 5 - The Vampire develops and the poet flees from the bailiffs Chapter 6 - Dip the Pen in Blood Chapter 7 - Theology, Child Abuse - and the vampire 'syndrome' Chapter 8 - The First Proper Story Chapter 9 - Sucking out energy - the passive aggressive personality Chapter 10 - In Print Chapter 11 - Vampires on the ward Chapter 12 - A modern Oedipus, Bloodletting and three more deaths Chapter 13 - Polidori's cultural legacy

Product details

• Authors: David Cohen
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138057654
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05765-4
• Series: The Psychology of Everything; The Psychology of Everything
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Media Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Psychotherapy, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis