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- Herausgeber: Greenbooks editore
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
"Exploring the Psychological Roots of Violence: From Aggressiveness to Harassment" is a book that delves into the complex issue of violence, exploring its psychodynamic foundations and offering a comprehensive view of how aggressiveness can evolve into more extreme forms of harassment.
Written by experts in psychology and psychodynamics, this book analyzes the underlying aspects of violence from a deep and detailed perspective. It examines how internal processes and individual psychological conflicts can fuel aggressiveness and lead to violent behavior.
Through clinical cases, relevant research, and theories, the book explores the relationship between aggressiveness and harassment, highlighting how harassment can emerge as a manifestation of more complex patterns of aggression. It delves into the psychological, emotional, and social factors that contribute to the cycle of violence and provides a broader understanding of its roots.
"From Aggressiveness to Harassment" offers a compassionate and critical look at violence, challenging common simplifications and prejudices surrounding this topic. Additionally, it seeks to provide tools and perspectives to effectively address violence and promote prevention, treatment, and the building of healthier and more peaceful relationships.
In summary, this book is a deep exploration of the psychodynamic foundations of violence, inviting reflection and promoting greater understanding of a complex and urgent phenomenon in our society.
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Index
Introduction. The issue of stress
Chapter One. Burnout
Chapter two. Mobbing
The Autor
Bibliography
Introduction. The issue of stress
The concept of work and its place in a person's life and daily habits have been influenced by social thought on work, which has undergone radical transformation from the past to today.
For centuries, work was considered an ignoble activity to be assigned mainly to slaves and prisoners, while only coordination and supervision activities were exercised by representatives of higher social classes. In some cultures, such as the Spanish one, the etymology of the word "trabajo" originated from the Latin term "tripalium", which designated a torture instrument for unproductive slaves.
In the 1700s, work began to become an increasingly widespread activity among representatives of all social classes, and a gradual change in social imagination began, representing work as a dignified activity aimed at achieving a goal, which can be the realization of a good or the creation of a service.
The subsequent transformations observed in recent centuries have seen work become not only a necessary activity for living, as it allows for economic independence, but also a means of social affirmation, assigning a status and having the value of a ritual that marks the true passage to adulthood.
Following these changes, the weight of work identity on personal identity has increased in recent years and this has led to dedicating more and more space to work, which, pushed to excess, has generated negative repercussions on psychosocial life and physical health. The social malaise that arises from excessive time devoted to work has been described in recent years in terms of "burnout", "work-related stress syndrome", but above all, "work addiction".
Work-Dependence: Reasons for Sacrificing Happiness
Today's historic changes in thinking about work have made work, especially in the Western world, an important tool for social integration and appreciation and for achieving economic independence. This has led to more and more talk of "dependency on work" recently, which was once a male privilege, but today, perhaps because work has always played an important role in the social struggle for recognition of women's rights, this dependence has also begun to expand to this gender.
"Workaholic," also defined in the United States as this addiction, referring to the English term "alcohol addiction," is a modern phenomenon, but can be described by mythical images, as people often do with other tendencies in spiritual life. "Workaholic" is defined as "workaholic" in the United States, referring to the English term "alcohol addiction". To borrow an ancient Greek legend, in this case we can define work dependence as "Sisyphus' disease," a term derived from the story of King Sisyphus of Corinth, who paid great greed for wealth and was condemned by Jupiter for a mistake in bringing a huge Stone back forever to the top of the mountain, from which the boulder fell from time to time. "Sisyphus Disease" is the story of King Sisyphus of Corinth, who paid great greed for wealth. Sisyphus' story is the story of King Sisyphus of Corinth.
Like other so-called "new addictions", such as work addiction, it represents an elevation to a wide range of daily activities. Rather, it is a "drug-free" addiction associated with legitimate, common activities that are now highly valued at the social level.
A very unique feature of work dependence is that it arises from secondary rewards, that is, indirect happiness arising from long-term and repetitive work actions. This factor makes it possible to understand why one can rely on an activity that rarely produces any major or direct rewards. In fact, work does not represent an object of immediate satisfaction, but an activity that requires efforts to obtain financial satisfaction or any other satisfaction. This allows consideration of two aspects. First of all, not all employees are masochists, because this kind of self-punishment tendency seems to be quite rare. The second implication of the main characteristic of work dependence is that this form of dependence is possible in those who have developed what is called a "secondary process", the ability to give up present happiness for future rewards, which on the one hand leads to a certain "psychological maturity" in the management needs and goals of work dependents, which is often lacking or lacking in other types of dependence.
However, a direct and immediate pleasure often exists, which is a factor in consolidating the attitude of devotion to work; It usually manifests itself as "enthusiasm" for the activity itself, a department or a discipline, just as some professionals devote all their free time to activities related to their major, such as reading and updating.
But above all, it is an indirect pleasure that can transform an unsatisfactory activity into a stable habit that can have an impact on the lives of those who maintain it and those around them.
In this regard, a study of the psychodynamic profiles of working employees reveals the main motivations that may be intertwined and combined, leading to a tendency to "work nonstop". As with other types of behavior, even a tendency to overwork can find four main job motivations, which are pushed to the extreme and can outline different jobs-employees:
Competitive and power-oriented workers: have the tendency of supremacy and self-affirmation. In this case, the stressors due to overwork will further increase the tendency of confrontational behavior, which will also lead to immoral behavior or domination of others.
Highly ambitious, success-oriented worker: His behavior is aimed at achieving higher and higher job goals, such as promotion or professional recognition. The tendency to succeed at work is characterized by a tendency to pursue excellence, responsibility and perseverance, which often stems from more or less conscious attempts to adapt to the recognition of patterns of extreme dedication to work (such as parents) and the implicit demand for perfection they convey to their children.
Single worker and affiliation orientation: In contrast to the first two categories is this category of employee-worker, for whom work provides a unique opportunity to experience social interactions that become more sporadic as a result of daily commitments. In this case, the cost of working hours, or even overtime, is a way to avoid loneliness or having no family.
Avoidant workers: The latter type of work motivation represents a special case of those who rush into their work and avoid a central problem in their lives, which may be emotional, family or social.
The central importance of work in building identity has also led to a discussion of insecure work, in which work-perhaps also due to the experience of parents, who often show appreciation and love after great success-is a way to seek social recognition to raise low self-esteem, or is always used to relying solely on the recognition and recognition of advantages such as work. This is the case, for example, for those whose parents tend to praise only the profits of study or work.
Finally, research into the psychological causes that may cause or nourish work dependence has also led to the identification of the types of guilty workers who escape the need for self-punishment by allowing themselves to be overburdened with "large doses" of work.
