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Examines the clinical diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. The wish to injure or kill the object of one's love is a paradox, but it is not uncommon.

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Part 1 Clinical theory and research: normative attachment and object relations theory; violence and erotomania; catathymic homicide; the psychopath as love object; assassination and pathological attachment. Part 2 Clinical diagnosis and treatment: erotomanic and other nondelusional attachments; borderline and psychotic catathymia; the female victim of the psychopath; revisiting the Rorschach of Sirhan Sirha.

Violent Attachments

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      Publisher Jason Aronson, Inc.
      Published 2 January 1993
      ISBN-13 9780876685372
      978-0876685372
      ISBN-10 0876685378

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the clinical diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. The wish to injure or kill the object of one's love is a paradox, but it is not uncommon.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 Clinical theory and research: normative attachment and object relations theory; violence and erotomania; catathymic homicide; the psychopath as love object; assassination and pathological attachment. Part 2 Clinical diagnosis and treatment: erotomanic and other nondelusional attachments; borderline and psychotic catathymia; the female victim of the psychopath; revisiting the Rorschach of Sirhan Sirha.

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