Developmental and dynamic dimensions of hate, rage, and violence

AuthorHarold P. Blum, MD, is a training and supervising analyst of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with New York University School of Medicine, a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, executive director emeritus of the Sigmund Freud Archives, and president of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund. He is past editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, past vice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and clinical professor of psychiatry (retired) at New York University School of Medicine. As well as being the author of more than 170 psychoanalytic papers and several books, he is the recipient of numerous awards and lectureships including: the inaugural Sigourney Award, Mahler, Hartmann, and Lorand Prizes; Sigmund Freud lectures in New York, London, Vienna, and Frankfurt; Anna Freud, Hartmann, Brill, Friend, and Sperling lectures, two plenary addresses to the American Psychoanalytic Association; and the Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture, Philadelphia. In addition he is chair of Five Symposia on Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence, Italy.
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