Stephen A. Diamond - Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity

STEPHEN A. DIAMOND, PH.D. is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist in Los Angeles, California. He is a former pupil and protege of existential psychoanalyst Dr. Rollo May. Dr. Diamond has been a practicing psychotherapist for more than thirty-five years, and served as a member of the Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the Criminal Division of the Superior Courts of Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County for fifteen years. He is the author of several book chapters, including contributions to Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (1991), Spirituality & Psychological Health (2005), Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil (2006), and the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (2009).

Dr. Diamond has taught at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University), the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University), John F. Kennedy University, Argosy University, Ryokan College, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and the C. G. Jung Institut-Zurich, Switzerland. He sits on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and writes regularly for Psychology Today in his popular blog Evil Deeds(http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds).

Anger, Madness and the

DAIMONIC

and the

DAIMONIC

THE PARADOXICAL POWER OF RAGE IN VIOLENCE, EVIL AND CREATIVITY

Stephen A. Diamond

Foreword by

ROLLO MAY

Revised Electronic Edition

Anger, Madness and the Daimonic

The Paradoxical Power of Rage in Violence, Evil and Creativity 2013 Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.

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Redeeming Our Devils and Demons (Chapter 38) by Stephen A. Diamond, in Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams, eds. (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1991), pp. 180-186. Copyright 1991 by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams. Originally published in the United States by Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., a division of G. P. Putnams Sons. Used by permission of Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.

The Psychology of Evil by Stephen A. Diamond, a critique of M. Scott Pecks People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 9, no.

1 (1990): 5-26. Copyright 1990 The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal. Used by permission.

The review by Stephen A. Diamond of Aggression: The Myth of the Beast Within by John Klama, in Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 4, no. 1 (March 1989): 29. Copyright 1989 American Orthopsychiatric Association. Used by permission.

Rediscovering Rank by Stephen A. Diamond, a review of E. James Liebermans Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 7, no. 3 (1987): 1-10. Copyright 1987 The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal. Used by permission.

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