Prologue to Violence - Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime

Zusatztext 107045877 Informationen zum Autor The author of numerous articles on criminal psychopathology! child abuse and neglect! and states of consciousness during acts of violence! Abby Stein! Ph.D.! is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Inter-disciplinary Studies Program of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City of New York. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry! Psychoanalysis! and Psychology. Klappentext Reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods! only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. This work explores how unformulated traumata become embedded in Manichean scripts that provide meaning for otherwise inexplicable experiences of brutality and betrayal. It challenges the beliefs about criminal character and motivation. Zusammenfassung Reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. This work explores how unformulated traumata become embedded in Manichean scripts that provide meaning for otherwise inexplicable experiences of brutality and betrayal. It challenges the beliefs about criminal character and motivation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Stern! Foreword. Preface. Who Me? Locating Agency in Violent Narratives. Slippery Characters: Methods and Sources. Conversing With Mutes. Criminals' Bad Luck. Maximum Perversion. Dreaming While Awake. Conclusion: Consciousness! Culpability! and Control. References. Acknowledgements.

Product details

• Authors: Abby Stein, Stein Abby
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2006
• EAN: 9780881634167
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-416-7
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Psychotherapy, Criminal or forensic psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Sexual abuse and harassment, Crime and criminology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)