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In Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Professor Freud unveils the intricate world of psychoanalysis by examining borderline cases of mental illness, including hysteria and compulsive neurosis. Through a meticulous study of his patients lives, Freud demonstrates that seemingly arbitrary symptoms harbor profound meanings, each linked to specific conflicts within the individual. His groundbreaking work reveals that the boundary between normal and neurotic behavior is surprisingly thin, with the mechanisms of psychopathology often appearing in milder forms in everyday people. This exploration led ...

"Psychopathology of Everyday Life" is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration, the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition.

Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents compelling evidence that, since a cultural tipping-point in the 1960s, certain types of violent crime have emerged that in earlier decades never or very rarely occurred.