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	Full Title:	Creative Aggression The Art of Assertive Living
	Author(s):	Dr. George R. Bach; Dr. Herb Goldberg
	Publishing / Edition:	Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974

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Chapter 1.

The "Nice" Americans
The "Nice" Mommy
The "Nice" Daddy
The "Nice" Children
The "Nice" Parents
The "Nice" Boss
The "Nice" Employees
The "Nice" Teacher
The "Nice" Students
The "Nice" Psychotherapist
The "Nice" Patients
The "Nice" Traveling Companions
The "Nice" Sport
The "Nice" Lovers
Living With the "Nice" Person
The Price of "Nice"

Chapter 2.

The Infant's Aggressive Energy
The Raising of Hidden Aggressors
The Tragedy of the "Good" Baby
The Myth of the Cruel Child
Beware of the Overcontrolled "Nice" Child!
The Child Must Deal with Frustration
The Training of Doves and Hawks
Aggression and Protest
Aggression and Love

Chapter 3.

A Narrow Basis for Loving
The Forgive-and-forget Ritual
The Patterns of Spouse Murder
The Goal of Fight Training
The Epidemic of Domestic Violence

Chapter 4.

The Therapist as a Symbol
The Discharge of Emotions
Fight with Your Therapist
The Z-process
The Aggressive Confrontation Approach
The Therapist as Indirect Aggressor
The Therapist is Not Your Social Friend
The Therapist as Victim
Sex Between Therapist and Patient
How to Choose and Evaluate Your Psychotherapist

Chapter 5.

The Crazymaking Mother
The Crazymaking Father
The Crazymaking Employer
The Socially Approved Image

Chapter 6.

Is it Paranoid to Be "Paranoid"?
Our Puritanical Naive Attitudes
Aggression Outlets
A Definition of Aggression
An Aggression Training Program

Chapter 7.

Duane Pope: Murder in the Bank
Charles Whitman: Sniper on the Texas Tower
Mark James Robert Essex: Terror in New Orleans
Juan Corona: Yuba City Murders
Charles "Tex" Watson: Manson's Executioner
Leo Held: Pennsylvania's Killer of Six
The Lessons to Be Learned
A Proposal for Prevention

Chapter 8.

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The Masks of Hostility
Collusion
Collusion Insurance
The "Sickness Tyrants"
Insurance Against "Sickness Tyrants"
The Passive Aggressors
Insurance Against Passive Aggressors
The "Red Cross Nurse" Syndrome
Insurance Against the "Red Cross Nurse"
Moral One-upmanship
Defending Against the "Moralist"
The Intellectualizers
Combating the intellectualizer
The Nonrewarder
Defending Against the Nonrewarder
The Doubter
Defusing the Doubter
The Helpless Aggressor
Helpless Insurance

Chapter 9.

124

The "Spectator Dance"
The "Religious Dance"
The "Police Dance"
The "Sporting Dance"
The "War Dance"
The "Pacifist Dance"
The "Scientific Research Dance"
Dancing with the Beast

Chapter 10.

137

Chapter 11.

141

Depression
Anger Helps
Realizing Self-hate
Catatonic Schizophrenia
The Prevalent
Psychological Problems
Six Emotionally Destructive Attitudes

Chapter 12.

159

Rituals for Release of Aggression
The "Vesuvius"
The "Virginia Woolf"
The "Haircut" With "Doghouse Release"
The Bataca Fight
Bataca Lashing
The "Slave Market"
"Attraction-reservation"
Self-reproach
"Persistence-resistance"
"Hurt Museums"
"Beltline Sharing"
"Insult Clubs"
Adapt Your Own Rituals

Chapter 13.

181

The Causes of Psychosomatic Diseases
The Asthmatic: A Hidden Protester
The "Headache Personality"
The Hypertensive Person
The Arthritic
Hidden Aggression and Cancer
Collusion During Illness
The Hidden Uses of Illness
The Questions One Should Ask
The Aggressive Language of the Body
Yawning
Farting
Itching
Avoidance of Eye Contact
Blushing
Paling
Nausea and Vomiting
Impotence and Frigidity

Chapter 14.

202

Fight for Better Sex
The Inhibiting Sensitivity
The Pic-bone: A Ritual for "Nice" Couples

Chapter 15.

210

The "Gender Club" Hostility Ritual
Sex as a Weapon
Intersex Fears
"Cold Turkey" Sex
The Need for Candor
Postcoital Discussions
The Sexual Crazymakers

Chapter 16.

224

Optimal Distance-"How Much Closeness?"
Centricity Struggles-"Who's the Most Important Person in Your Life?"
Power-struggles-"Who's on Top?"
Trust Formation-"How Can I Be Sure?"
Preservation of Self-"I've Got to Be Me!"
Social Boundaries-"Whom Should We Invite?"
Romantic Illusions-"Are You the Person I Married?"

Chapter 17.

236

The Double Bind
Coping with the Double Binder
The Mind Rape
Combating the Mind Raper
The Guiltmakers
Defense Against Guiltmakers
Nonengagement: Crazymaking by Emotional Withdrawal
Confronting the Nonengager
"Thinging"
Prevention of "Thinging"
Mystification
Demystifying the Mystifier
Crisismaking
Controlling the Crisismaker
Closure Block or Derailing
Blocking the Closure Block
The Occasional Reinforcer
Obstructing the Occasional Reinforcer
Some General Guidelines

Chapter 18.

261

The Price of Suppressing Open Aggression
The Family Powwow
Phase 1: Aggression Exercises for Families
The Slave Market
Learning from Rejection
Role Switching
Pushing Daddy or Mommy Against the Wall
Feedback Training
Persistence-resistance
Phase 2: Family Rituals
The "Vesuvius"
The "Virginia Woolf"
The "Haircut" with "Doghouse Release"
"Museum Tours"
Bataca Fighting
The Bataca Lashing
Phase 3: The "Fair Fight for Change"

Chapter 19.

284

The American Caste System
With Fear and Trembling
The Destructive Kindness
The Employee Who Can't Say "No"
The "Nice" Executive and the Hatchet Man (Not So Strange Bedfellows)
The Persistence-resistance Exercise
There Is No Magic Key Solution
Airing the Hostilities
Humilating the Employee
The Group "Mind Rap" of an Employer
The Employers' Options
The Creative Executive

Chapter 20.

304

The Fair Fight Techniques
The Nine Steps in a Fair Fight
Evaluation of the Fight
A Sample Fight

Chapter 21.

319

Risk vs. Security
Experience vs. Analysis
Reaching Out vs. Holding Back
Self-disclosure vs. Self-secrecy
Living By One's Own Rhythm vs. Clinging to Authority

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