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ABSTRACT Sixteen Canadian men and women, part of eight intact couples who had experienced severe and recurrent wife assault, were interviewed individually regarding their worst experience of violence. The self-reports [...]

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The article offers an overview of psychoanalytical concepts proposed by psychoanalyst René Roussillon. His examination of metapsychology in relation to theoretical changes introduced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in 1920 is tackled. The notions of primary trauma and symbolization as well as secondary trauma and symbolization are explored. The debate on whether an infant is either pleasure-seeking or object-seeking and the object's role in the development of psychic apparatus of a child are also explored.

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An essay is presented on psychodynamics that lead to violence. It highlights the little contribution made by psychoanalysts to the understanding concerning the use of extreme violence by individuals who have no criminal backgrounds or do not suffer from any psychopathology associated with higher levels of violent outbreaks. The paper also offers a short summary of the work by psychoanalysts interested in mass violence.

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This article provides comments from the director of this journal on what is has been like to lead the revue since she began in 2005. Dianne Casoni talks about the importance of the journal in the science of criminology world and how the editorial staff has improved the journal. Several of the revue's partners are also mentioned including the University of Montreal and the École de criminologie.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including harmful cultic influence, narcissism and psychotherapy.

This study aims at understanding some of the identity issues faced by exmembers of cultic groups. Content and sequence analysis were used in a psychoanalytic theoretical framework to study two interviews, which were conducted with a former member of a Mormon polygamist group. The analysis showed that, although leaving the group has triggered some changes in the participant's identity, these were superficial whereas the most funda mental aspects remained unchanged. Three themes related to the participant's identity are further discussed: a non-integrated introjection of selfrepresentation; differentiation/non-differentiation conflict; and failure in identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]