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This book presents the serial killer as having imagopathy - that is, a disorder of the imagination - manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. The author argues that this disorder is a form of failed alchemy.
List of contents
Origins and Introduction , An Explanation of this Work’s Origins , Fictions, Themes, and Questions , Methodology , The Literature , The Analytic Literature of Countertransference , The Literature of Active Imagination , Archetypal Psychology’s Contributions , Criminal Profiling Literature , Synthesis , An Imaginal Synthesis , An Imaginal View of Crime Scene Analysis , Discoveries and Rhizomes
About the author
Aaron B. Daniels teaches psychology in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from: Baldwin Wallace College (BA); Duquesne University (MA), where he studied existential phenomenology; and Pacifica Graduate Institute (PhD), where his degree emphasized the depth tradition. After working for a decade in private and public practice, he transitioned into academia. His previous two works, 'Imaginal Reality, Volume One: Journey to the Voids' and 'Imaginal Reality, Volume Two: Voidcraft' were both published in 2011. Written with Laura M. Daniels, they are syntheses of imaginal psychology with existential principles.
Summary
This book presents the serial killer as having 'imagopathy' - that is, a disorder of the imagination - manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. The author argues that this disorder is a form of failed alchemy.
