This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states' of mind behind specific forms of violence and the social and societal contexts in which an individual act of human violence takes place, the contributors reveal the dynamic forces and reasoning behind specific forms of violence including structural violence, and conceptualise the societal structures themselves as 'violent states'.

Other research often stops short at examining the causes and risk factors for violence, without considering the opposite states that may not only mitigate, but allow for a different unfolding of individual and societal evolution. As a potential antidote to violence, the authors prescribe an understanding of these 'creative states' with their psychological origins, and their importance in human behaviour and meaning-seeking. Making a call to move beyond merely mitigating violence to the opposite direction of fostering creative potential, this book is foundational in its capacity to cultivate social consciousness and effect positive change in areas of governance, policy-making, and collective responsibility.

Volume 1: Structural Violence and Creative Structures covers structural and symbolic violence, with violent states and State violence, and with creative responses and creative states at the local and global levels.

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Information

Publisher

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Year

2018

ISBN

9781784509675

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Forensic Psychology

Index

Psychology

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Prologue
Introduction
Part I: Introductorily and Theoretically
Part II: Violent States and State Violence
Part III: Terror in the Public Sphere
Part IV: Creative Structures: From the Local to the Global
List of Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
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Acknowledgements
Copyright
Of Related Interest