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Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviors that threaten and even extinguish their existence? The present work has given thought to this question and examined the phenomenon of self-destruction through the perspectives of empirical psychology, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, as well as existential-phenomenological psychology. The themes included in this book are: the emerging understanding of self-destructiveness in culture, religion, philosophy, and psychology; Bion's investigation into the self-destructive capacity of the mind; Heidegger's ontology of Being and the Enframing of technology; and identifying and delineating the 'who' who most experiences the impact of human-to-human destructiveness in our contemporary culture.
- Sales Rank: #1796443 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-01
- Released on: 2013-01-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Potter takes us step-by-step through the various tacklings of this issue...He presents empirical data, as well as taking us through the details of his social scientific points of view. Therefore, as readers, we can sharpen our perspectives, as we go along in this rather cold and dark cellar of human kind...Potter elegantly elaborates the ghosts of abandoned meaning in suffering and formless destructiveness of patients or clients." Theodor Itten, author of Rage: Managing an Explosive Emotion and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy
"Elements of Self-Destruction is a wide-ranging, reader-friendly study of the enigma of self-destructiveness. The study is unique in the literature in its hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to this subject matter, seeking understanding from within the experiential worlds of those engaged in self-destruction. Drawing on the thinking of Bion and Heidegger, Potter makes a fascinating proposal concerning the intimate relationship between the essence of technology—which reduces beings, including human beings, to meaningless resources to be exploited—and the essence of self-destructiveness, illustrating his thesis with evocative discussions of child trafficking, pornography, and the Holocaust. Readers of this book will be richly rewarded." - Robert Stolorow, PhD, author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
"Brent Potter touches a central problem of our time – human destructiveness. Destructiveness has always been part of our nature but presses us all the more with our added technological capacities and global scale of reach. It is the elephant in the room we try to find ways around, lacking adequate tools or capacity to address directly or well. Books like this are imperative as a way to keep destructiveness in focus and stimulate growth towards working with forces that injure and maim. Potter’s research peels layers off evasiveness while adding to the store of wisdom needed to address who we are and how we work." - Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Contact With the Depths and Psychic Deadness
"Brent Potter guides us on an erudite, elegant and deeply instructive hermeneutic investigation into the most disturbing and contradictory of all human impulses--one, as he shows, potentially inherent in all of us - the urge to self-annihilation." - Gabor Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
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- "Elements of Self-Destruction is a wide-ranging, reader-friendly study of the enigma of self-destructiveness. The study is unique in the literature in its hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to this subject matter, seeking understanding from within the experiential worlds of those engaged in self-destruction. Drawing on the thinking of Bion and Heidegger, Potter makes a fascinating proposal concerning the intimate relationship between the essence of technology--which reduces beings, including human beings, to meaningless resources to be exploited--and the essence of self-destructiveness, illustrating his thesis with evocative discussions of child trafficking, pornography, and the Holocaust. Readers of this book will be richly rewarded." -Robert Stolorow, PhD, author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
- "Brent Potter touches a central problem of our time -- human destructiveness. Destructiveness has always been part of our nature but presses us all the more with our added technological capacities and global scale reach. It is the elephant in the room we try to find ways around, lacking adequate tools or capacity to address directly or well. Books like this are imperative as a way to keep destructiveness in focus and stimulate growth towards working with forces that injure and maim. Potter's research peels layers off evasiveness while adding to the store of wisdom needed to address who we are and how we work." -Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Contact With the Depths and Psychic Deadness
- "Brent Potter guides us on an erudite, elegant and deeply instructive hermeneutic investigation into the most disturbing and contradictory of all human impulses -- one, as he shows, potentially inherent in all of us - the urge to self-annihilation." -Gabor Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
About the Author
Dr. Brent Potter is a psychotherapist with 20 years of direct clinical service. He is the Director for the Society for Laingian Studies and the R.D. Laing Institute. Brent is the author of numerous articles whose topics include: innovative and effective mental healthcare models, analytical psychology, humanistic psychology, existential-phenomenology, psychoanalysis, the psychotic register of the mind, character and personality disorders, chemical dependency and child / adolescent mental health concerns.
His first book, 'Elements of Self-Destruction' is out via Karnac Books: (karnacbooks.com/Product.asp?PID=32499).
Brent welcomes all correspondence and can be contacted via Facebook (facebook.com/drbrentpotter), by email (brentpotterma@yahoo.com) or by phone (818.337.9701).
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Dr. Potter Herald's a New and Needed Movement in Psychological Thought and Practice!
By G.M.
Dr. Brent Potter provides new brilliance around how to understand and heal our psychological wounds free from the abuses of the medical and pharmaceutical models.
I would also add that Dr. Potter's work, with or without intention, is truly a foray into a new world of what I foresee as sustainable psychology and psychotherapy that will be needed as our corporately designed medical, psychiatric and pharmaceutical systems continue to fail and feed the unsustainability of our current cultural arc.
Dr. Potter shows us that our psychological struggles are intended to help us become more whole and offers us guidance and paradigms to sow this seed in our lives, communities and culture.
As I spend more time with Dr. Potter's work, which I'm looking forward to, I will expand this blurb into a more complete review.
I recommend that anyone with a vocational interest in psychology pay attention because Dr. Potter's work heralds, inspires, challenges and encourages a fundamental shift in psychological thought and practice.
Michael Mantas, M.A.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A Light on the dark Horizons
By T. Itten
Dr Brent Potter is a psychotherapist and teaches doctoral level courses at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he himself earned his Ph.D. This text has its roots in his thesis. He is furthermore Director for the Society for Laingian Studies and the R.D. Laing Institute. Presently, he lives and practices in Seattle, WA and Oak Park, CA.
His first book is presented in eight chapters, leading us through the philosophical, psychological and psychoanalytical (both Freudian and Jungian flavours are included) aspects of self-injurious behaviour, with particular reference to Bion & Heidegger. Philosophically trained in existential thought and social phenomenological enquiry, he shows us various paths to possible meanings and sense-making of this painful human activity. For some thinkers, the solution in tackling this problem is seen as a coping activity in the self-management of painful affects. These, more often than not, have an aetiology in sexual and violent abuse in childhood and youth. These suffering persons aim thus - by physical self-injury - to relieve their overwhelmingly painful psychic feelings. Potter takes us step-by-step through the various tacklings of this issue by some of the grandees in the field of social science. He presents empirical data, as well as taking us through the details of his social scientific points of view. Therefore, as readers, we can sharpen our perspectives, as we go along in this rather cold and dark cellar of human kind.
One of the fierce and crippling triggers in the theatre of soul's destruction of, or on the issue of self-embodiment, is the inability, or rather unwillingness to accept our range of human limitations: limitations to, what can be done, what is expected by peers or forbearers, and what one wants personally to fulfil.
The author of this hermeneutic and phenomenological analysis finds himself often in dark places aiming his flashlight onto the psyche. While he shines onto a spot of analysis of elements of self-destruction, the context is once again veiled in darkness. Just like Freud in The Future of an Illusion, where he points out, that our forebears have created `society' as a means of safety and comfort from nature, but the price to pay for this adventure of structural dwelling is growing crime, poverty, cruelty, strife and envious conflict. This alienation, according to Potter, who discusses curious trends of reflections on his theme, more often than not, leads to neurotic privations finding a release in a miserable space of self-destruction. This complex of suffering is a mode of behaviour, whose pattern has often been set in a traumatic childhood. As a habit, it has a tyrannical force way out of conscious control of the will. Here R.D. Laing's concept of `ontological insecurity' is a major point in the books musings on the topics showing up in the hermeneutic circle drawn around the phenomena under discussion.
A parallel can be seen in Arthur Miller's play The Death of a Salesman (1949). He, for one, has expressed this maddening tendency of our species living in a highly developed society - being alienated from its old comforts of social identity. While the present lived-moments of the social, familial and employment states become increasingly incompatible with the self-picture, the salesman's mental state deteriorates towards self-destruction. The comforting boundary of his lifetimes achievements are thus (self) destroyed.
Such a darkening of horizons can leave one stranded in the middle of nowhere, as one patient of Potter's experienced his childhood with meth-addictive parents, living in and out of trailers. Violent behaviour, self-aggression and a major depression apparently helped to cope with these shadowy aspects in our human sphere. Yet suffering fools gladly does unfortunately not lead to described salvation. In taking Bion's experience in analysis and groups as an aid to sense-making, using this concept of self-destruction, Potter elegantly elaborates the ghosts of abandoned meaning in suffering and formless destructiveness of patients or clients.
Pondering on the "Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviours that threaten and even extinguish their existence?" Potter makes his points well in this study - though, in some passages, one frankly still feels the necessary academic writing style, stilting his otherwise gentle prose - to show the emerging understanding of self-destructiveness in our culture, some religions, existential philosophy, and depth psychology.
In Chapter 6: "Contemporary manifestations of self-destructiveness", Potter widens the scope from the individual's self-destructiveness, to the self-destructiveness within societies and particularly towards children. After a wealth of statistics (mainly from USA), he delves into the World Health Organisation's causal factors to abuse and neglect and what lies behind PTSD, child hunger and poverty, as well as phenomena like child trafficking. "The very system in place to protect children in America frequently damages children and families." (p. 122) Children are removed from their violent and traumatising homes of origin only to end up in another setting, where they often are subjected to helplessness and re-traumatisation by abuse in children homes.
This chapter then segues into a long case history and a re-telling of the myth of Persephone, serving as a guiding story of how one can connect back to one's healthy part of personality, drawing on the power of resilience which has been build up on our journey through netherworlds.
His central theme, which he re-addresses in Chapter Seven, is that "Self-destructiveness is an essential aspect of all psychopathology and human-to-human destructiveness." (p. 139) ... "Every culture throughout history has had to contend with the phenomenon of self-destructiveness. It has been critically addressed in philosophy and in every school of psychology." (p. 140) Potter explores differing attitudes to suicide, and Freud's views on Thanatos (the death instinct) is reviewed and compared with the existential-phenomenological views, which "focussed less on forces operating within the psyche and more on life experience." (p. 142). Given the level of interconnectedness of human living in a society, like in the USA, we can do better in knowing one's own limitations and mortality. This opens up a feeling of an empathic link, being in the radiance of serenity, from persons at peace within themselves. As Aldous Huxley once mentioned, you can't lasso both your fate and luck. R.D. Laing, of course, focussed on familial and cultural aspects as well, theorising (from his clinical studies) that the psyche fundamentally has two aspects, the true self (our inner private self) and the false self: the face we show to the world. "Under favourable developmental conditions the two aspects do not conflict with each other. Under more pathological conditions, the two aspects do not develop normally and lead, to a greater or lesser degree, to a divided self." (p. 142) Potter, practising as a clinical psychologist, gives a few telling case vignettes, which illustrate how out of the chaos of self-hurt and destructiveness can emerge an inner voice, which the psychotherapist, attending to the havoc of suffering souls, can hear and thus kindle in the healing process. The author further explores the destructive potential of pornography (as well as its increasing growth) undermining the healthy development of erotic intimacy of individuals. He ponders on the nightmarish phenomena like hi-tech, which reduces other human beings to resources that can be treated like objects and then utterly exploited. The Holocaust of Jews in Europe and the genocide of the Native Americans, are just two horrifying examples of humanity's self-destructiveness on a large scale, which Potter ties to contradictory impulses of human nature.
When this form of splitting is practised on a wider level, we can all lose touch with our general sense of Being, which, according to Heidegger, exists for its own purposes. Try as we individually and collectively might to dominate all that which we encounter, so as to feel imaginary secure, we destroy essential - and often the more vulnerable - aspects of our society, like our children's well being and sanity. "I think this adds to the body of work," Potter concludes, "considered thus far and may provide another avenue by which to give thought to the sway of destructiveness has in the world." (p. 147)
This book has received splendid advance praise by the likes of psychoanalyst and philosopher Robert D. Stolorow and the famed New Yorker psychoanalyst and seasoned author Michael Eigen. This is well-earned by Potter, who has dared to address one of humanities less graceful aspects.
Theodor Itten,
Executive Editor of IJP, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An Excellent Treatment
By Arthur George
This book is an elegant and instructive overview and discussion of psychological theories concerning self-destructiveness in the individual and collective psyche. It is a re-visioning and updating of the author’s PhD dissertation, based in part on his subsequent research and clinical experience with self-destructive personalities, using a method that he terms phenomenological and hermeneutic. In this approach, self-destructiveness is approached not so much from the “outside” as a sickness/disorder but by a more intimate engagement with the person from his or her point of view and experiences. The book provides an excellent summary of the evolution of past theories on the subject, and then focuses on the psychological theories of Wilfred Bion and the phenomenology of the philosopher Martin Heidegger as important milestones leading into the author’s approach to dealing with self-destructive behaviors in the modern world. This book is a must for the bookshelf of anyone wishing to understand and investigate this subject.
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