Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

The better angels of our nature : the decline of violence in history and its causes / Steven Pinker.

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Violence - Psychological aspects

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Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

The better angels of our nature : the decline of violence in history and its causes / Steven Pinker.