Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
Book Details
- Publisher : Analytic Press
- Published : 2006
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 24623
- ISBN 13 : 9780881634167
- ISBN 10 : 0881634166
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Stein explores how unformulated traumata become embedded in Manichean scripts that provide meaning for otherwise inexplicable experiences of brutality and betrayal. In doing so, She challenges prevailing beliefs about criminal character and motivation, holding for instance that sex murderers - far from being driven by deviant sexual fantasy - have little or no capacity to engage sexuality in imaginative ways, that conscience is not absent but overactive in many criminals, and that psychopathy is a relatively useless diagnostic construction. Stein's interdisciplinary approach draws upon salient research and theory from multiple perspectives, including interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis, neuroscience, traumatology, Post-Cartesian philosophy, criminology, cognitive and narrative psychology, and forensic psychology.