The Reproduction of Evil

In an interdisciplinary analysis at once scholarly and passionate, Grand explores the ways in which families and cultures transform victims of malignant trauma into perpetrators of these very traumas on others. Through intensive case studies, she d

Sue Grand

An Introduction to Malignant Dissociative Contagion. Loneliness and the Allure of Bodily Cruelty. Child Abuse and the Problem of Knowing History. The Paradox of Innocence: Dissociative States in Perpetrators of Bodily Violation. Malignance and the Bestiality of Survival. The Depravities of the Nonhuman Self: Greed, Murder, Persecution.  Frankenstein and His Monster: Grief and the Escape from Grief. The Problem of Redemption: From Homicide to Psychic Annihilation.