Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity

by Stephen A. Diamond

SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology

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In this book, clinical psychologist Stephen A. Diamond determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are - as most people believe - purely negative, pathological, and evil or can be meaningfully redeemed and rechanneled into constructive activity. What is the psychobiological significance of such feelings? And what is the psychological link between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity? Drawing on the discoveries of depth psychologists such as show more Freud, Jung, Adler, Rank, Reich, and Rollo May, as well as the work of other contemporary psychotherapeutic pioneers, Diamond examines these timely yet eternal questions. show less

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Stephen A. Diamond
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May, Rollo (Foreword)
Washburn, Michael (Editor)

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SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology
6 works

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Canonical title
Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity
People/Characters
Erich Fromm; Erich Seligmann Fromm; Otto Kernberg; Otto Friedmann Kernberg; Heinz Kohut; Rollo May (show all 8); Carol Tavris; Carol Anne Tavris
First words
We live in violent times.
Quotations
But soma and psyche can never be completely separated; they are two aspects of a fundamentally indivisible ground of being upon which human existence stands, and from which the daimonic emanates. It is for this reason that "m... (show all)adness" will never be reduced to pure biology - or to pure psychology for that matter.
Publisher's editor
Washburn, Michael
Blurbers
Abrams, Jeremiah; Kelsey, Morton T.; Beebe, John; Singer, June; Sanford, John A.; Hogenson, George B. (show all 8); Lieberman, E. James; Dalrymple, David J.

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
155.2 — Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Differential and developmental psychology Individual Psychology
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BF575 .A5 .D65 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Affection. Feeling. Emotion
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