Aggression: Is It Yours or Mine? | Dr Frank Yeomans

Dr. Frank Yeomans explains how accepting -- or not accepting -- our own aggressive feelings impacts our psychological stance on an individual and societal level.

If we don't accept -- or integrate -- our aggression we can end up in the paranoid-schizoid position, a split world view where everything "bad" comes from outside ourselves. In contrast there is the depressive position, in which things are more complicated and we acknowledge that we have some "bad" within ourselves as well.

This basic psychological stance exists in the individual and also on the group level, where it impacts what leaders we choose and how we run our society. Yeomans offers some clinical and historical examples of individuals and groups who operate in the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. The current polarization in our world shows the current prevalence of the paranoid-schizoid position, but Yeomans hopes that through education of our young people we can evolve in our understanding and definition of what it means to be "good."

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Frank Yeomans is an expert clinician who makes use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in his practice treating NPD and BPD. In fact, he co-wrote the manual on TFP for Borderline Personality Disorder!

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