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Humanity's Dark Side : Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy /
"There are many forms of human destructiveness: war, rape, murder, slavery, the Holocaust, other manifestations of genocide, oppression, torture, theft, exploitation, child abuse, gang warfare, and extortion, to name just a few. There are also everyday "little" ways in which we hurt e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Psychological Association,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "There are many forms of human destructiveness: war, rape, murder, slavery, the Holocaust, other manifestations of genocide, oppression, torture, theft, exploitation, child abuse, gang warfare, and extortion, to name just a few. There are also everyday "little" ways in which we hurt each other: malicious gossip, social exclusion, treating others with contempt, blaming others wrongfully, not listening to others, and imposing our ideologies on others. Human destructiveness, from everyday forms to extreme forms, can be thought of as comprising what is often metaphorically referred to as humanity's "dark side." Humanity's dark side plays a role in psychotherapy. Many therapists may not have worked with perpetrators of seriously destructive behavior. However, most have worked with the victims of it--victims of physical or sexual abuse, emotional abuse, harmful parenting practices, oppression, racism, sexism, the vast range of abuses of social inequities and injustices, and so on. Although many books about human evil have been written (e.g., Baron-Cohen, 2010; Staub, 2011; Zimbardo, 2007), remarkably scant attention has been paid to how psychotherapists conceptualize and deal with the dark side of human nature in psychotherapy. This trend may reflect the growth of a technological (i.e., technique-based) emphasis in psychotherapy. Owing to the proliferation of evidence-based interventions, therapists have been encouraged to understand their practice in terms of the techniques and procedures that have been claimed to work best for different disorders. Nonetheless, how therapists construe the dark side of humanity is highly relevant to how they practice--or so we believe. This belief forms the foundation for this book. Thus, we ask the following questions in this book: How do therapists understand the nature and existence of destructive human behavior, from profound evil to more mundane expressions of humanity's dark side? How does this understanding affect therapists' attempts to prevent and/or remediate either destructive behavior itself or its effects?"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781433811821 1433811820 |