Cruelty, violence, and murder
Subtitle: understanding the criminal mind
By: Arthur Hyatt-Williams ; edited and with a foreword by Paul Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Paul, Ph. D.
Series: The library of object relations
Publisher: J. Aronson; Jason Aronson; Jason Aronson, Inc.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Death -- Psychological aspects
Description: The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it and those who injure themselves is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers, their sentences commuted to life in prison when England abolished the death penalty, are some of the subjects of world-renowned psychotherapist Arthur Hyatt-Williams' in-depth psychological study of what makes people kill.

Applying the theories and techniques of Melanie Klein, Herbert Rosenfeld, Hanna Segal, and, above all, Wilfred Bion, he sought to expand the sufferers' repertoires beyond acting out by facilitating the beginnings of a mourning process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-341) and index.
Based on selected research papers and cases and some notes which were part of the author's M.D. thesis.