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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: Adrian Keith Perkel, "Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach" (Routledge, 2023)
Description: Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024) âAggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesnât seek the fight.â With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freudâs formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkelâs assertion that âWhere the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological pro...