
Revenge
On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2019
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-0-367-32668-5 (ISBN)
Description
The authors in this book focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday life to the extreme societal destructiveness of genocide. Are perpetrators always avengers? What is the destructive potential of ordinary people? Envy
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-32668-5 (9780367326685)
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Persons
Tomas Bohm was a training psychoanalyst in private practice in Sweden, and author or co-author of a number of books dealing with xenophobia, racism and fundamentalism. He was a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Prejudice Committee. Suzanne Kaplanis a practicing child and training psychoanalyst. Researcher at The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. Publications include 'Children in Genocide - Extreme traumatization and affect regulation' (2008). Recipient of the Hayman Prize for published work pertaining to traumatized children and adults in both 2001 and 2007.
Content
Foreword -- AUTHORS' FOREWORD -- Introduction -- Revenge -- The revenge motif -- The psychology of the revenge spiral-revenge or restoration -- The grey zone between revenge and restoration -- The destructive group -- Revenge on the societal level: large groups, ideologies, and political systems -- Why does the revenge spiral continue? Among victims and perpetrators -- Revenge in everyday life-relationships in couples -- Revenge from a gender perspective: abuse of women -- Extreme collective violence: the example of Rwanda -- Restoration -- Refraining from revenge -- Surviving psychic trauma -- Stopping the revenge spiral -- Restoration and reconciliation