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Serotonergic mechanisms in human aggressionWingrove, Janet Madge January 2005 (has links)
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Early experiences and cognitive bias in adolescent aggressive behaviourHarrop, Christopher Paul January 2008 (has links)
In the present research it was hypothesised that biases in attention for threat and aggression stimuli would be present amongst aggressive youth and that these would be related to angry or anxious traits because these too are proposed to be resultant of early maltreatment experiences.
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Overcoming aggression : musing on mindfulness and self-controlYusainy, Cleoputri January 2013 (has links)
The ability to restrain oneself from acting on aggressive impulses is arguably a crucial aspect of human functioning and interaction. Yet growing evidence in the literature suggests that people’s self-control resources may be limited and, at times, self-controlled regulation could even increase the association between aggressive triggers and aggressive behaviour. As an alternative, mindfulness practices encourage individuals to be aware and accept their aggression-related thoughts and emotions simply as an ephemeral state rather than to control them. Across four studies, we investigated the possibility that brief, as opposed to extensive, mindfulness exercise may reduce aggression, and whether this potential effect can be separated from a general mechanism of self-control. The relationships between mindfulness, self-control, and aggression were explored in their dispositional forms (Study 1; N = 241). Then, the effect of brief laboratory inductions of mindfulness was tested following manipulations designed to either bolster (Study 2; N = 99) or weaken (cross-cultural samples: Study 3; N = 119 vs. Study 4; N = 110) the resources of self-control. In addition, the potential roles of individual differences in sensitivity to provocations (SP) and frustrations (SF), and self-harm on aggression were also assessed. Results indicated that (i) despite one’s dispositional ability to exert self-control, the presence of a mindful quality uniquely reduced the experiences of anger and hostility, (ii) under the condition of full self-control resource (i.e., after self-control training), mindfulness induction contributed only in reducing more subtle/implicit forms of aggression, and (iii) under lack of self-control resource (i.e., following ego-depleting task), mindfulness induction significantly reduced direct physical aggression after the experience of provocation across cultures. The benefit of mindfulness on aggression appears to be more salient when individual’s self-control resource has been taxed, which operates similarly in Western and non-Western settings. Therapeutic tools focusing on the mechanism for controlling the expression of aggression would benefit from an inclusion of mindfulness-based strategies, as well as an early identification of individual’s sensitivity to different types of aggressive triggers and risks for self-harm.
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Toward a predominantly male analysis of the annoyance/rage continuum in intimate heterosexual relationshipsJoffe, Marc Gavin 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis operates, unashamedly, from the premise that every act of criticism
involves a self-reflexive gesture of one's own concerns and ideological imprintings. For this
reason Chapter One establishes the writer's own involvement - both autobiographical and
theoretical - in notions of male rage and the 'working through' of these concerns.
Chapter Two conducts an overview of male rage and the extant systemic literature on the
subject. It sets out the various positions on the subject and posits the importance of gender
(over generation) in the praxis of therapy. Furthermore, it explores the possibility that the
male is equally, but differently, troubled by the hegemonic forces of patriarchy as is the
woman. Without diminishing the legitimacy of the woman's experience in the face of male rage,
the argument is forwarded that the male is caught in a similar struggle but without the feminine
articulatory resources. This chapter details the lack of male power in the face of his supposed
muscular omnipotence.
Seminal analytic approaches to the question of gender are raised in Chapter Three. Working through
Freud, Klein, Lacan and Masters and Johnson an attempt is made to plot the 'evolution' of
the feminine and the masculine. Central to this debate is the bi-polarization of gender relations
within the same sex (biology/construction) and without (phallic/vaginal, clitoral, passive/active).
What emerges is that femininity is bi-focal and that the woman has more resources at
her disposal that hitherto acknowledged. While the woman is always double - as both clitoral and
vaginal, as lover and mother- it appears that male sexuality is far more precarious than generally
perceived. It is this dis-ease on the part of the male that translates itself into envy and, with
it, the need to denigrate and belittle woman as the object of that envy.
In Chapter 4 an attempt is made to overlap the seemingly divergent fields of analytic and systemic
methodologies via the involvement of the therapist in the eco-system of analysis. The substantial
role of the therapist -- and the coercive forces placed on him/her by the couple -- is used to
modify Elkaim's model and to introduce the need for a telling of the particular stories that concentrate on the
unique narratives of the warring couple rather than the patriarchal regime under which these
stories are constrained.
Before encountering these narratives an essay is made at establishing a methodology of sorts.
Newton's scientific formulations are used in order to question the binary opposition that has been,
historically, established between quantitative (male) and qualitative (female) methodologies. In
the process of questioning this binary opposition it becomes clear that any form of objectifying
approach constitutes a refuge from the messiness that is intrinsic to the therapeutic process. The
experimental methodology that is posited is precisely one that engages in the narratives of male violence - four extracts are
considered, each exposing different articulations of male violence.
The question of female subjectivity (and the attendant power of the sorority) is returned to in
light of these stories. Central to this section is the notion that male subjectivity is far more
convoluted - perhaps more that the feminine counterpart - than initially conceived. The original
identification with the (m)other forever displaces him in that the later identification with the
father remains distant and contrived. For the purposes of maintaining the dialogic nature of this
work, a feminist appraisal of the rage narratives concludes the thesis. Don Quixote is used, by way
of an Epilogue, to offer three representations of male subjectivity and to look towards alternative subject positions for the male under patriarchy. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)
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Toward a predominantly male analysis of the annoyance/rage continuum in intimate heterosexual relationshipsJoffe, Marc Gavin 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis operates, unashamedly, from the premise that every act of criticism
involves a self-reflexive gesture of one's own concerns and ideological imprintings. For this
reason Chapter One establishes the writer's own involvement - both autobiographical and
theoretical - in notions of male rage and the 'working through' of these concerns.
Chapter Two conducts an overview of male rage and the extant systemic literature on the
subject. It sets out the various positions on the subject and posits the importance of gender
(over generation) in the praxis of therapy. Furthermore, it explores the possibility that the
male is equally, but differently, troubled by the hegemonic forces of patriarchy as is the
woman. Without diminishing the legitimacy of the woman's experience in the face of male rage,
the argument is forwarded that the male is caught in a similar struggle but without the feminine
articulatory resources. This chapter details the lack of male power in the face of his supposed
muscular omnipotence.
Seminal analytic approaches to the question of gender are raised in Chapter Three. Working through
Freud, Klein, Lacan and Masters and Johnson an attempt is made to plot the 'evolution' of
the feminine and the masculine. Central to this debate is the bi-polarization of gender relations
within the same sex (biology/construction) and without (phallic/vaginal, clitoral, passive/active).
What emerges is that femininity is bi-focal and that the woman has more resources at
her disposal that hitherto acknowledged. While the woman is always double - as both clitoral and
vaginal, as lover and mother- it appears that male sexuality is far more precarious than generally
perceived. It is this dis-ease on the part of the male that translates itself into envy and, with
it, the need to denigrate and belittle woman as the object of that envy.
In Chapter 4 an attempt is made to overlap the seemingly divergent fields of analytic and systemic
methodologies via the involvement of the therapist in the eco-system of analysis. The substantial
role of the therapist -- and the coercive forces placed on him/her by the couple -- is used to
modify Elkaim's model and to introduce the need for a telling of the particular stories that concentrate on the
unique narratives of the warring couple rather than the patriarchal regime under which these
stories are constrained.
Before encountering these narratives an essay is made at establishing a methodology of sorts.
Newton's scientific formulations are used in order to question the binary opposition that has been,
historically, established between quantitative (male) and qualitative (female) methodologies. In
the process of questioning this binary opposition it becomes clear that any form of objectifying
approach constitutes a refuge from the messiness that is intrinsic to the therapeutic process. The
experimental methodology that is posited is precisely one that engages in the narratives of male violence - four extracts are
considered, each exposing different articulations of male violence.
The question of female subjectivity (and the attendant power of the sorority) is returned to in
light of these stories. Central to this section is the notion that male subjectivity is far more
convoluted - perhaps more that the feminine counterpart - than initially conceived. The original
identification with the (m)other forever displaces him in that the later identification with the
father remains distant and contrived. For the purposes of maintaining the dialogic nature of this
work, a feminist appraisal of the rage narratives concludes the thesis. Don Quixote is used, by way
of an Epilogue, to offer three representations of male subjectivity and to look towards alternative subject positions for the male under patriarchy. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)
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