1st Edition

Accounting for Aggression Perspectives on Aggression and Violence

By Gerda Siann Copyright 1985
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

The despair and incomprehension that often seem to be the only possible response to acts of aggression and violence have led to attempts by academics and writers from a wide variety of backgrounds to understand and explain such behaviour. The concern and anxiety that is felt by many people about this subject is such that some of their accounts – notably by Konrad Lorenz, Desmond Morris, Robert... Read more

Thanks and Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  1. Issues of Definition  2. Biological Approaches to Aggression and Violence  3. Ethological and Sociobiological Approaches to Aggression  4. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Aggression and Violence  5. Laboratory and Experimental Approaches to Aggression and Violence  6. Social Accounts of Aggression and Violence  7. Towards a Synthesis.  References.  Index.

Biography

Gerda Siann