The healing zone: Religious issues in psychotherapy, New York (Paragon House Publishers) 1989, 288 p.; esp. pp. 98-119.
- Carl Goldberg asks how malevolent transformation of personality takes place. In-spired by Fromm's work on the origin of destructiveness, Goldberg builds on Fromm's observation that an evil character tends to develop gradually by a succes-sion of innumerable acts of inhumanity that are often rationalized and dismissed. Goldberg has found that the road that leads to sadism and cruelty is often paved by a history of shame and humiliation. Goldberg proposes stages of the sequential transformations of shame, humiliation, and rage that eventually lead to malevo-lence. He illustrates the theory with a very interesting case study. Goldberg's stages provide the basis for rich clinical exploration that could lead to a research agenda into the various possible pathways for the development of the malevolent personal-ity.
MetadatenAuthor: | Paul R. Fleischman |
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Document Type: | Books |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1989 |
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Release Date: | 2014/01/28 |
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Format: | PDF-scan to download |
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IdNo: | Fleischman_P_R_1989 |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Books / Bücher |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Books / Bücher |
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