Understanding violence: Does psychoanalytic thinking matter?

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-239

  Yakeley, Jessica ^a   Meloy, J Reid ^b  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Mentalization; Psychoanalysis; Psychopathy; Violence

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EGO; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FANTASY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALIZATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SUPEREGO; THINKING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84859264544     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: 18736335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2012.02.006     Document Type: Review

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