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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.

100

- 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 I: Aggression Exercises for Families
- The Slave Market
- Learning from Rejection
- Role Switching
- Pushing Daddy or Mommy Against the Wall
- Feedback Training
- Persistence-resistance
- Phase II: Family Rituals
- The "Vesuvius"
- The "Virginia Woolf"
- The "Haircut" with "Doghouse Release"
- "Museum Tours"
- Bataca Fighting
- The Bataca Lashing
- Phase III: 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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