Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviors: Eclipse of the Life Instinct

by Charles Stewart

Book Overview

Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours explores the primary motivational system in human beings. Based on the work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Louis Stewart and Silvan Tomkins, Charles Stewart investigates the psychology of the innate affects, with a focus towards the emotional motivation of adolescents and young adults who have killed others, themselves, or both.

It is suggested that social isolation, dissociation of the personality, unbearable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415408784
• ISBN13: 9780415408783
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"