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Handbook of Aggressive and Destructive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Handbook of Aggressive and Destructive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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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.
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