Anger, madness, and the daimonic
Subtitle: the psychological genesis of violence, evil, and creativity
By: Stephen A. Diamond ; foreword by Rollo May.
Series: SUNY series in the philosophy of psychology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Anger.; Violence -- Psychological aspects.; Good and evil -- Psychological aspects.; Aggressiveness.; Creative ability.; Shadow (Psychoanalysis)
Other titles: Psychological genesis of violence, evil, and creativity
Description: In this book, clinical psychologist Stephen A. Diamond determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are - as most people believe - purely negative, pathological, and evil or can be meaningfully redeemed and rechanneled into constructive activity. What is the psychobiological significance of such feelings? And what is the psychological link between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity?

Drawing on the discoveries of depth psychologists such as Freud, Jung, Adler, Rank, Reich, and Rollo May, as well as the work of other contemporary psychotherapeutic pioneers, Diamond examines these timely yet eternal questions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-375) and index.