Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviors: Eclipse of the Life Instinct Book

List of tables and plates     ix
Foreword   John Beebe     x
Preface     xii
Acknowledgements     xiii
Author's note     xv
Introduction     1
How the innate affects work     24
Optimal vs. violent expression of affect: a new way to understand the emergence of each of these outcomes     37
Death and rebirth of the life instinct     70
Vivienne Loomis: suicide     91
Kipland Kinkel: killing of parents and others     111
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold: multiple homicides followed by suicides     125
Sinedu Tadesse: homicide followed by suicide     153
Gloria: panic leading to homicide Peter: fury leading to killing of mother and sisters     173
Little Father Time: homicides followed by suicide     182
Lethal conditions and psychological treatment     187
Epilogue     220
Bibliography     231
Index     241