| Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) |
| Contents |
COVER; Acknowledgements; About the Author; PART I Origins and Introduction; Chapter One An Explanation of this Work's Origins; Chapter Two Fictions, Themes, and Questions; Chapter Three Methodology; PART II The Literature; Chapter Four The Analytic Literature of Countertransference; Chapter Five The Literature of Active Imagination; Chapter Six Archetypal Psychology's Contributions; Chapter Seven Criminal Profiling Literature; PART III Synthesis; Chapter Eight An Imaginal Synthesis; Chapter Nine An Imaginal View of Crime Scene Analysis; Chapter Ten Discoveries and Rhizomes; Outline of Topics |
| Summary |
This book presents serial killers as having disorders of imagination, imagopathy, seen through deficiencies such as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. This disorder is a form of failed alchemy. This study challenges long-held assumptions that the Jungian concept of individuation is a purely healthful drive. Serial killers are unable to form insight after projecting untenable material onto their victims. Criminal profilers must therefore effect that insight, using active imagination, informed by their own reactions, on violent crime scene imagery. This book posits |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
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Serial murderers.
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Jungian psychology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of
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Jungian psychology
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Serial murderers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1781812608 |
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9781781812600 |
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1782411283 |
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9781782411284 |
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1461957559 |
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9781461957553 |
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