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

by Stephen A. Diamond

Book Overview

Though the causes of violence in our society are complex, the troublesome human emotions of anger and rage play a central role in the genesis of violent behavior and psychopathology in general. In this provocative book, clinical and forensic psychologist Stephen A. Diamond determines where rage and anger originate and explores whether these powerful passions are--as most people resume--purely negative, pathological, and evil or can be meaningfully redeemed and redirected into constructive activity. Using clinical and biographical case studies, as well as striking visual images, he traces anger, rage, and violence through their most destructive expressions to their creative and transcendent functions in art, psychotherapy, and spirituality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791430758
• ISBN13: 9780791430750
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"