"PSYCHOLOGY / Personality" . . "Positive psychology." . . "Pulsion de mort." . . "Self-Injurious Behavior psychology." . . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . "Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviors that threaten and even extinguish their existence? The present work has given thought to this question and examined the phenomenon of self-destruction through the perspectives of empirical psychology, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, as well as existential-phenomenological psychology. The themes included in this book are: the emerging understanding of self-destructiveness in culture, religion, philosophy, and psychology; Bion's investigation into the self-destructive capacity of the mind; Heideg." . . . . . "Elements of self-destruction" . "Comportement suicidaire." . . . . "Optimism." . . "Psychology." . .