The Dynamics of Human Aggression : Theoretical Foundations, Clinical Applications

Aggression is often thought of as involving hostility, anger, or destructiveness.

In the context of analysis, this view is based on the concept of aggression as an impersonal instinctive drive that forces the subject to act destructively, requiring defensive responses to control it.

The Dynamics of Human Aggression challenges this view, proposing instead that aggression is best conceptualised as the capacity of the mind to carry out any psychic or physical activity directed to overcoming any obstacle interfering with the completion of an intended internal or external action.

This new paradigm advances a single concept to encompass all varieties of aggression.

To put forth and justify their new theory to readers on both the theoretical and clinical fronts, the authors have reviewed the main theoretical selections of the field from Freud to contemporary writers, and offer a wide range of clinical accounts.