Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-041-24636-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Elements of Self-Destruction explores how individuals unconsciously enact self-harming patterns through a phenomenological psychoanalytic lens.
This revised edition deepens and expands the theoretical framework, offering a more integrative and culturally responsive examination. Drawing on the author’s extensive clinical practice, the book explores psychic fragmentation, repetition compulsion, moral injury, and dissociation - not only as intrapsychic symptoms but as socially reinforced phenomena. Brent Potter uses clinical theory, philosophical analysis and a new psychobiographical study to hold a mirror to unconscious processes of self-erasure, framed through the lens of existential inquiry, psychoanalysis, and contemporary cultural dynamics.
Elements of Self-Destruction will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training, clinicians seeking trauma-informed resources for understanding self-harming and dissociative presentations, and academics and students of depth and existential psychology, philosophy, trauma studies, political psychology, and cultural studies.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface to the Revised Edition
Chapter 1.
Introduction to the Phenomenon of Self-Destructiveness
Chapter 2.
Research Design and Method of the Study
Chapter 3.
The Emerging Consciousness of Self-Destructiveness in History and Psychology
Chapter 4.
The Ghosts of Abandoned Meaning and Formless Destructiveness
Chapter 5.
The Eclipse of the Sacred and the Darkening of the World
Chapter 6.
Contemporary Manifestations of Self-Destructiveness
Chapter 7.
Conclusion and Discussion
Chapter 8.
What Cannot Be Resolved
Chapter 9.
Moral Injury
Chapter 10.
The Shattered Interior
Chapter 11.
Integration and the Problem of Living with What Does Not Disappear
Chapter 12.
Faith Without Consolation
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