Violence - A psychoanalytic understanding

This talk was organized by VIMHANS in collaboration with India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was a part of a 12-month interactive series on Indian psychoanalysis (2012 -2013) curated by the then newly established psychoanalytic therapy unit at VIMHANS, New Delhi. The speaker is Pulkit Sharma, a well-known clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic therapist, spiritual counselor and author now based in Pondicherry, India.

Highlights of the talk:
1. The role of unconscious mind in violence
2. Affect dysregulation
3. Primitive defense mechanisms: acting out, passive aggression, splitting, projective identification.
4. Self-destructive behaviors and suicide
5. Violent thoughts, emotions and behaviors in psychotherapy room
6. Handling transference and countertransference

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