Behavioural science - the nature of human aggression; aggression in suicide and para-suicide; mechanisms in the cycle of violence; neuroscience - the neuro-endocrinology of aggression; the roles of steroids, monoamines and peptides; serotonin and impulsive aggression-relationship to alcoholism; the neurophysiology of aggression; clinical science; psychopathic disorder, personality disorder and aggression; violence and psychosis; the psychiatric management of violence; prospects for anti-aggressive drugs; the treatment of challenging behaviour in people with learning difficulties; the clinical measurement of aggression; historical interlude - violence and creativity in Victorian Bedlam, Richard Dadd; the consequences of violence; psychological research in disasters - some snags and methodological issues; the effects of rape and sexual assault; children who witness parental killing.
