A collection of case studies from analysts who have treated patients who have committed serious acts of violence either against others or themselves.

Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies at University College London. She is researching a project at the Anna Freud Centre which offers subsidised analysis to young adults and is also in private practice.

Introduction, Rosine Jozef Perelberg; Introduction to chapter 1; Chapter 1 Psychoanalytic understanding of violence and suicide, Rosine Jozef Perelberg; Introduction to chapter 2; Chapter 2 Towards understanding violence, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target; Introduction to chapter 3; Chapter 3 The role of the father in a pre-suicide state, Donald Campbell; Introduction to chapter 4; Chapter 4 A core phantasy in violence, Rosine Jozef Perelberg; Introduction to chapter 5; Chapter 5, Anthony Bateman; Introduction to chapter 6; Chapter 6 Technique in the interpretation of the manifest attack on the analyst, Rosemary Davies; Introduction to chapter 7; Chapter 7 The paradox of suicide, Joan Schachter; Introduction to final remarks; Chapter 8, Peter Fonagy;