Revenge - On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and Its Taming

About the author

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.

Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Tomas Bohm, Tomas Kaplan Bohm, Bohm Tomas, Suzanne Kaplan, Kaplan Suzanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367326685
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32668-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Trauma and Violence