| #996864 in Books | Jason Aronson, Inc. | 1997-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x1.01 x6.02l,1.38 | File Name: 0765700611 | 366 pages |
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Not a Book For 'Sissies'|By Phyllis Antebi Ph.D|The first review was quite thorough and for good reason; it was probably written by someone in the field. So, I'll not repeat what this first person already detailed. If you don't know what a 'violent attachment' is, you have probably not experienced one first hand That is commendable. Unfortunately, those whose early years w||Dr. Meloy has cast a bright light into the dark world of violent individuals and those who attach themselves to them. (Larry H. Strasburger, M.D.)
Violent Attachments is an extremely valuable addition to the literature on aggression. Meloy h
This book is written for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and social workers in clinical or forensic practice. Biological foci include concepts about the deep limbic structures of the brain and the biochemistry that inhibits or disinhibits such violence. Psychological patterns include both psychoanalytic constructs and the specific psychological test data from the case studies that support such constructs. Social factors include the behavi...
