School Violence

Ingrid Rose has practiced as a psychologist and therapist in Australia and the United States for twenty-five years and worked extensively with children and adolescents. She studied in Switzerland and Oregon and obtained doctorates of Philosophy from both University of Western Sydney and Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has been assistant professor at Portland State University in the Child and Families Studies department and is currently on the faculties for The National College of Natural Medicine, The Process Work Institute and The Global Process Institute. She has lectured internationally in process oriented therapy, and has published in The Journal of Process-Oriented Psychology.

• Preface -- Abstract -- Setting the stage -- Depth psychology and school violence -- New ideas on school alienation and violence -- Interventive methods -- Preventive measures -- Group dialogue and the quantum field -- Conclusion and final reflections

In exploring the inner worlds of disturbed students the aim of this book is twofold. One important aspect is to bring enhanced understanding of dynamics involved in incidents of school violence to professionals, family members, school staff, and the larger social system. The other facet of this book focuses on the introduction of tools and techniques that can be used to bring out the inner experiences of students that usually remain unspoken and unaddressed. In utilizing dream figures, myth, image, body awareness, and group dialogue, previously ignored or repressed phenomena can find a placein which they can be contained and acknowledged.'School Violence is a vital, timely contribution. Dr Rose recognizes that chronic denial of the daimonic is at least as dangerous in adolescence as adulthood. She skillfully applies the penetrating insights of depth psychology to decipher the deepening epidemic of anger, rage and violence in our schools. This book courageously honors the therapeutic power, wisdom and value in acknowledging and constructively expressing the daimonic or shadow rather than destructively repressing and demonizing it.'- Dr Stephen Diamond, author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic'In this helpful new book on school violence, Dr Ingrid Rose brings us theories and new practical methods for understanding and dealing with alienation, revenge, and the place of student conflicts in the larger educational and social systems.'- Dr Arnold Mindell, author of Sitting in the Fire