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An edition of Prologue to violence (2006)

Prologue to violence

child abuse, dissociation, and crime

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"Despite mounting reference to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime, Abby Stein draws on the narratives of 65 incarcerated subjects and extensive material from law enforcement files to remedy this lacuna in both the forensic and psychodynamical literature. In the process she calls into question prevailing beliefs about the criminal character and motivation. For Stein the early trauma to which adult criminals are subjected remains unformulated and, as such, unavailable for reflection. Contrary to common belief, these criminals, especially sex murderers, do not commit their crimes in a rational or fully conscious way. They are not driven by a deviant fantasy, their psychopathy is not inborn, and they rarely commit acts of violence "without conscience.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Analytic Press, The Analytic Press
Language
English
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147

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Adult child abuse victims, Child abuse, Crime, Criminal psychology, Dissociation (Psychology), Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, Psychology, Dissociative Disorders, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Criminology
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Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
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Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Routledge
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Cover of: Prologue to Violence
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Prologue to Violence
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Prologue to Violence
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Prologue to Violence
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Prologue to violence
Prologue to violence: child abuse, dissociation, and crime
2007, Analytic Press, The Analytic Press
in English
Cover of: Prologue to Violence
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book)
November 17, 2006, The Analytic Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-142) and index

Published in
Mahwah, N.J
Series
Psychoanalysis in a new key book series -- v. 5

Classifications

Library of Congress
, HV6626.5 .S84x 2007eb, HV6626.5 .S84x 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 147 p. ;
Number of pages
147

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17233317M
ISBN 10
0881634166
ISBN 13
9780881634167
OCLC/WorldCat
830322477, 85831243
LibraryThing
2777441
Goodreads
2516116

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Work ID
OL8588054W

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