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John Beebe

Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy

Perspectives from Analytical Psychology - edited by John Beebe

410 pages, illustrated, ISBN 3-85630-628-5 / 978-3-85630-628-1, Paperback Daimon

Papers from the 2002 North American Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates

These papers address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche’s healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility.
This book provides an opportunity to learn what can inform the human spirit to prevail over the forces that threaten its integrity and compassion.

Contents:

John Beebe Preface
Clarissa Pinkola Estés Explaining Evil
Jacqueline Gerson Kidnapping: Latin America’s Terror
Judith Hecker A View from the Islamic Side: Terror, Violence, and Transformation
in the Life of an Eleventh Century Muslim
John Dourley Archetypal Hatred as Social Bond: Strategies for its Dissolution
Beverley Zabriskie Response to John Dourley
Mary Dougherty Escape/No Escape: The Persistence of Terror in
the Lives of Two Women
Thomas Singer Cultural Complexes and Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit
Samuel L. Kimbles Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes
Sherry Salman Blood Payments
Arthur D. Colman Music and the Psychology of Pacifism: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Arlene TePaske Landau The Impulse to Destroy in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky Wrestling with God: From the Book of Job to the Poets of the Shoah
Brian Skea Jung, Spielrein, and Nash: Three Beautiful Minds Confronting the Impulse
to Love or to Destroy in the Creative Process