Van der Walt, Clinton Michael2018-03-012018-03-012017Van der Walt, Clinton Michael (2017) Violence and the pathological third : an examination of violence in psychotic, perverse and narcissistic patients, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24127>https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24127This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2017This thesis formulates symptomatically violent patients psychoanalytically using the notion of thirdness as a particular theoretical and clinical lens It examines three psychopathological cohorts, those being psychosis, pervesion and narcissism. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]Online resource (216 leaves)enPsychology, PathologicalPsychotherapyMental illnessViolence and the pathological third: an examination of violence in psychotic, perverse and narcissistic patientsThesis