First do no harm : the paradoxical encounters of psychoanalysis, warmaking, and resistance / / edited by Adrienne Harris, Steven Botticelli

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/17
• Soggetto topico: War - Psychological aspects; War victims - Psychology; Psychoanalysis - Moral and ethical aspects; Psychology, Military
• Altri autori: BotticelliSteven HarrisAdrienne
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Psychoanalysis and antiwar work : healing -- pt. 2. The paradox : psychology's militarism -- pt. 3. War and militarism deconstructed -- pt. 4. Resistance.
• Sommario/riassunto: At the outset of World War I - the ""Great War"" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds, but its principles could just as easily serve the enemy's desires to inculcate its own brand of ""truth.""Even a ce
• Titolo autorizzato: First do no harm
• ISBN: 1-135-84295-7; 1-135-84296-5; 1-283-04576-1; 9786613045768; 0-203-88519-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791872903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 45.