Research Catalog

Title

Violence : basic and clinical science / edited by Chris Thompson and Phil Cowen.

Publication

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann in association with Mental Health Foundation, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thompson, Chris.
• Cowen, Philip.
• Mental Health Foundation (London, England)

Description

x, 262 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Violence > Psychological aspects > Congresses
• Violence > Physiological aspects > Congresses
• Aggressiveness
• Violence
• Aggression
• Violence
• violence
• Aggressiveness
• Violence > Physiological aspects
• Violence > Psychological aspects
• Gewalttätigkeit
• Psychisch Kranker
• Agressief gedrag
• Medische aspecten

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "This book is the result of a conference organized by the Mental Health Foundation at Bailliol College, Oxford"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Behavioural science -- 1. The nature of aggression in humans / Digby Tantam -- 2. Aggression in suicide and parasuicide / Norman Kreitman -- 3. Studying mechanisms in the cycle of violence / Kenneth A. Dodge -- Pt. 2. Neuroscience -- 4. The neuroendocrinology of aggression: roles of steroids, monoamines and peptides / Joe Herbert -- 5. Serotonin and impulsive aggression: relationship to alcoholism / Emil F. Coccaro, Richard J. Kavoussi and Scott Stehle -- 6. Aggression and epilepsy / Peter Fenwick -- Pt. 3. Clinical science -- 7. Psychopathic disorder, personality disorders and aggression / Ronald Blackburn -- 8. Violence and psychosis / Simon Wessely -- 9. The psychiatric management of violence / Tony Maden -- 10. Prospects for antiaggressive drugs / Alyson J. Bond -- 11. The treatment of challenging behaviour in people with learning difficulties / Glynis Murphy -- 12. The clinical measurement of aggression / Per Bech -- Pt. 4. Historical interlude -- 13. Richard Dadd: Violence and creativity in Victorian Bedlam / Patricia Allderidge -- Pt. 5. The consequences of violence -- 14. Children who witness parental killing / Dora Black, Tony Kaplan and Jean Harris Hendriks -- 15. Psychological research in disasters: some snags and methodological issues / Rachel Rosser, Gary M. Jackson, Man Cheung Chung and James Thompson -- 16. The effects of rape and sexual assault / Gillian C. Mezey.

ISBN

• 0750609265
• 9780750609265

LCCN

92048198

OCLC

• ocm27036988
• 27036988
• SCSB-1988179

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library