Human Aggression by Storr, Anthont - 1969

UK: Allen Lane, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. h/b 127 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear to the DJ.'That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of his own species. The sombre fact is that we are the cruelest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth; and that although we may recoil in horror when we read in newspaper or in history book of the atrocities committed by man upon man we know in our hearts that each of us harbours within himself those same savage impulses which lead to murder, to torture and war' it is Anthony Storr's purpose to draw our attention to these impulses and to show how they may be controlled. He writes as a psychotherapist, but as a human being as well, and his discussion of aggression as instinct, as an element of childhood and of adult life, as it affects sexual relations, and as it influences depression, does not allow the universal human relevance to be concealed by jargo. he3 has made hostility real, credible and comprehensible whether expressed by an angry child, a jealous husband, a psychopath or a politician. the fruits of aggression may be destruction and Storr's lucid and humane book ends with a plea for understanding and the control that may come from it.