Handbook of Aggressive and Destructive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Theoretical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Biological—Physiological

      • Paul F. Brain

      Pages 3-16

   3. Ethological Contributions

      • J. Dee Higley, Markku Linnoila, Stephen J. Suomi

      Pages 17-32

   4. Sociological

      • Shirley A. Smoyak, D. M. Gorman

      Pages 33-50

   5. Social Psychological

      • Russell G. Geen

      Pages 51-64

   6. Psychoanalytic

      • Howard D. Lerner, Joshua Ehrlich

      Pages 65-80

   7. Humanistic

      • Willard B. Frick, Berne Jacobs

      Pages 81-92

3. General Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Epidemiology

      • Alfonso Troisi, Marco Marchetti

      Pages 95-112

   3. Legal and Ethical Issues

      • Robert M. Wettstein

      Pages 113-128

   4. Control in the Psychiatric Setting—Adults

      • Marnie E. Rice, Grant T. Harris, Vernon L. Quinsey

      Pages 129-143

   5. Control in the Psychiatric Setting—Children and Adolescents

      • Dale J. Hindmarsh

      Pages 145-161

4. Adult Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Organic Mental Disorders

      • Gerald Goldstein

      Pages 165-174

   3. Psychoactive Substance Abuse

      • Howard B. Moss, Ihsan M. Salloum, Barry Fisher

      Pages 175-201

   4. Schizophrenia

      • William C. Wirshing, Donna Ames, Stephen R. Marder, Tara Hicks-Gray

      Pages 203-220

   5. Affective Disorders

      • Alec Roy

      Pages 221-235

   6. Dissociative Disorders

      • Richard P. Kluft

      Pages 237-259

   7. Sexual Deviations

      • Nathaniel McConaghy

      Pages 261-286

Scarcely a day passes without the media detailing some form of human aggression, whether it be on its grandest scale in the form of war, random bombings and shootings in the streets, torture in a prison camp, murder by gangs, wife abuse resulting in the murder of the husband, or the physical abuse of children, sometimes resulting in their death. Frequently perpetrators of human aggression, when arrested and tried in court, resort to a psychiatric defense. But are all such aggressors indeed appropriately psychiatric patients? And if so, what are their particular diagnoses and how do these relate to aggression? Also of concern is aggression directed against self, as evidenced in the rising incidence of suicide among young people or the self-mutilation of patients suffering from certain personality disorders. Both violence directed outward and aggression toward oneself pose considerable challenges to clinical management, whether in the therapist's office or in the inpatient unit. Although we have not been able to find successful deterrents to aggression, a sizeable body of evidence does exist, certainly of a descriptive nature. Such data for psychiatric patients are scattered, however, and can be found in literatures as diverse as the biological, ethological, epidemiological, legal, philosophical, psychological, psychiatric, and crimi­ nological. Therefore, given the increased frequency with which mental health professionals encounter cases of violence in their day-to-day work, we believed it important that existing data be adduced in one comprehensive volume.

• aggression
• attention
• brain
• epidemiology
• hyperactivity
• psychology

• Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA

  Michel Hersen

• Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Pittsburgh, USA

  Robert T. Ammerman, Lori A. Sisson

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