Terror, violence, and the impulse to destroy : perspectives from analytical psychology / papers from the 2002 North American Conference of Jungian analysts and candidates.

Editor's preface - John Beebe. Explaining evil - Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Kidnapping: Latin America's terror - Jacqueline Gerson. A view from the Islamic side: terror, violence, and transformation in the life of an eleventh century Muslim - Judith Hecker. Archetypal hatred as social bond: strategies for its dissolution - John Dourley. Response to John Dourley - Beverley Zabriskie. Escape/no escape: the persistence of terror in the lives of two women - Mary Dougherty. Cultural complexes and archetypal defenses of the group spirit - Thomas Singer. Cultural complexes and collective shadow processes - Samuel L. Kimbles. Blood payments - Sherry Salman. Music and the psychology of pacifism: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem - Arthur D. Colman. The impulse to destroy in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure - Arlene TePaske Landau. Wrestling with God: from the Book of Job to the poets of the Shoah - Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. Jung, Spielrein and Nash: three beautiful minds confronting the impulse to love or to destroy in the creative process - Brian Skea

'These papers address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche's healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility.'

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