Description
Understanding Evil
A Psychotherapist’s Guide
Author: Corbett Lionel
Language: EnglishSubject for Understanding Evil:
Keywords
Evil Behavior; Malignant Narcissism; depth psychology; Understanding Evil; Jungian psychology; Evil Person; analytical psychology; Term Evil; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Evil People; soul; Antisocial Behavior; psychotherapeutic; Dark Side; Machiavellian; American Psychiatric Association; theory; Cheat Detection Modules; free will; Banal Evil; Nationalism; Difficult Life Conditions; collective; Young Men; religion; Fairy Tales; mythology; Early Hominid Ancestors; biology; Evil Character; philosophy; Moral Idiots; terrorism; Archetypal Core; human nature; Traditional Ethical System; Basque Separatist Euskadi Ta Askatasuna; SPECT Scan; Predatory Identity; Early Hominid; Typical Human Situations; SPECT
Publication date: 02-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 02-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Evil is a ubiquitous, persistent problem that causes enormous human suffering. Although human beings have struggled with evil since the dawn of our species, we seem to be no nearer to ending it. In this book, Lionel Corbett describes the complexity of the problem of evil, as well as many of our current approaches to understanding it, in ways that are helpful to the practicing psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, or Jungian analyst.
Psychotherapists often work with people who have been the victim of evil, and, occasionally, the therapist is faced with a perpetrator of evil. To be helpful in these situations, the practitioner must understand the problem from several points of view, since evil is so complex that no single approach is adequate. Understanding Evil: A psychotherapist?s guide describes a range of approaches to evil based on Jungian theory, psychoanalysis, social sciences, philosophy, neurobiology, mythology, and religious studies. The book clarifies the difference between actions that are merely wrong from those that are truly evil, discusses the problem of detecting evil, and describes the effects on the clinician of witnessing evil. The book also discusses what is known about the psychology of terrorism, and the question of whether a spiritual approach to evil is necessary, or whether evil can be approached from a purely secular point of view.
In Understanding Evil, a combination of psychoanalytic and Jungian theory allows the practitioner a deep understanding of the problem of evil. The book will appeal to analytical psychologists and psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies. It will also be of great interest to researchers approaching the question of evil from a variety of other fields, including philosophy and religious studies.
Preface. What is evil? Can we understand evil? The approach of social science to evil. Psychoanalytic approaches to evil. Jung on evil. Biological factors that predispose to evil. Religious, mythological, and philosophical views of evil. Psychological aspects of terrorism. Is evil part of human nature?
Lionel Corbett is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in private practice, and professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. His main professional interests are the religious function of the psyche and the interface of Jungian and psychoanalytic psychology, and his previous books include The Religious Function of the Psyche (Routledge).