Introduction and Overview—Ronald C. Naso. Part I: Formulating Evil. The Essence of Evil. The Psychoanalytical Relevance of Jacob Böhme’s Concept of Evil. Demonic Consciousness: Jungian Approaches to Understanding Evil. II: The Psychology of Perpetration. Breaking Bad and the Rhetoric of Evil. Predatory Identity. The Psychodynamics of Evil: Motives Behind Acts of Extreme Violence in Peacetime.Part III: Clinical Applications. Trauma and Evil: Questions of Ethics and Aesthetics for a Profession in Crisis. Witnessing Evil.
Ronald C. Naso, Ph.D., ABPP, is a psychoanalyst and clinical
psychologist in independent practice in Stamford, CT. The author of
numerous papers on psychoanalytic topics, he is an associate editor
of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies and contributing editor of
Division/Review and the Journal of Psychology and Clinical
Psychiatry. His book, Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and
the Ethics of Inauthenticity, was published by Aronson in 2010.
Jon Mills, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and
clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology &
Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto.
A 2006, 2011 and 2013 Gradiva Award winner, he is editor of three
book series in psychoanalysis, on the editorial board for
Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the author and/or editor of 13
books including his most recent works, Underworlds: Philosophies of
the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics and Conundrums:
A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, which won the Goethe
Award for best book in 2013.
"In a rapidly changing world incredible technological advances
constantly expose us to news of man’s inhumanity to man and make us
witnesses to the most unpleasant events. It is very important that
the causality of such disturbing human behavior is explained by
those who study the human mind. With references to various
psychoanalytic perspectives and by examining frightening individual
and societal cases this book provides significant insights for
seemingly unexplainable human stories."-Vamık D. Volkan, Professor
Emeritus of Psychiatry and the author of Enemies on the Couch: A
Psychopolitical Journey Through War and Peace"Ultimately, I felt
that the most important insight from this edited collection is that
evil is inevitably contrasted to the good; one cannot conceive of
evil, without the good. Indeed, confronting evil is surely what
makes us truly human." - Henry Abramovitch, Israel Institute of
Jungian Psychology for the Journal of Analytical Psychology
"In a rapidly changing world incredible technological advances
constantly expose us to news of man’s inhumanity to man and make us
witnesses to the most unpleasant events. It is very important that
the causality of such disturbing human behavior is explained by
those who study the human mind. With references to various
psychoanalytic perspectives and by examining frightening individual
and societal cases this book provides significant insights for
seemingly unexplainable human stories."-Vamık D. Volkan, Professor
Emeritus of Psychiatry and author of Enemies on the Couch: A
Psychopolitical JourneyThrough War and Peace
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