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Project 14: Curiculi:

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Professor Eric J. Lindblom Ph.D.

SYLLABI:

Sample course outlines relevant to the study of violence support the application in lecturing and research using both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The individual class algorithm, for teaching, is Content, Communication, Cognition and Culture.

The course syllabi are constructed from courses previously taught for seven years as Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice at Johns -Hopkins University at the Crownsville Hospital Center: Annapolis and as Organizational Behavior at The Union Institute.

I.) Lecture Series: SOCIAL RESEARCH:

1.) Defense Neuro-Psychoses Systems
2.) The Concept of the Ego
3.) What is a ter rorist target?
4.) The Psychology of Ter rorism
5.) How can psychological defenses be misdirected?
6.) Adaptive realistic stimulus theory
7.) Experiential Laboratory: tracing individual introjects
8.) Underlying rationales for ter rorism
9.) Profiles in Ter rorism
10.) Quantitative Methods: Economies of Scale.
11.) Research Methods
12.) Data Analysis Methodology
13.) Examination of Results
14.) Proposal Writing
15.) Project Development

II.) Lecture Series: RESEARCH IN SYSTEMATIC AGGRESSION

Previously taught for Johns Hopkins University and Catonsville College as Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice

"Aggressiveness is self-destructive system turned outward against substitute objects.  A person fights with other people and is destructive because his death wish is blocked by the forces of the life instincts and by other obstacles in his personality which counteract the death instincts." (Hall, C.S. and G. Lindsey (1957). Theories of Personality. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

1.) Introduction to Freudian theory
2.) Physicalizing the issues using role-playing interaction.
3.) Theory of modernism
4.) Theory of postmodern violence
5.) General Systems Theory
6.) Systems Science: human systems applied science
7.) Behavioral Psychology
8.) General structure and functioning application to profiling
9.) Genetic factors
10.) Environmental influences
11.) Specific Self-structure profiling
12.) Developmental Theory
13.) A Case Study in Ter rorism:  Professor Victor Jara of Chile
14.) Introduction to personality
15.) Results of aggressive breakdown in development

III.) Lecture Series: ANALYTICAL PROFILE LECTURES

New Course (Specifics are provided, here, as a sample of how the lectures can be detailed.)

 
1.) Rationalization:   The lecture shall focus on the use of logic in terms of motivational psychology and theories of human behavior.
2.) Projection: The concept of placing the blame external to the individual shall be explored. Questions about L’autre (the other) shall be discussed in terms of persons and objects.
3.) Compensation:  The lecture shall present material on the concepts of Substitution and Reward. Feelings of inferiority shall be shown in relationship to mechanisms of Regression and Unconscious
retreat from the present into the past.
4.) Denial: The goals of Refusal versus the facing of a real situation shall be compared to systems involving nd Imagination.
5.) Displacement:   Shifts in emotion and meaning shall be contrasted with the concept of the other. 6.) Acting Out:  Direct action and expression are explored in relationship to ethical considerations.
7.) Repression: The concept of tension and blockage would be explored in terms of consciousness.
8.) Reaction formation:  development opposite actions is explored in the mechanism of repression to relieve anxiety.
9.) Undoing:    The lecture uses the concept of Negating to illustrate conflict in disapproved desire.
10.) Emotional Insulation: Withdrawal is explored in terms of emotional involvement.
11.) Intellectualization: Where rationales defuse the emotional charge, they are misplaced. The lecture shall inform students as to the dynamics of that interaction.
12.) Identification: Status enhancement for the purpose of reliance for adequacy is shown in this lecture to be a misplaced direction leading to specific problems.
13.) Introjections:   While internalization of opposing attitudes is a method of survival, the consequences can lead to disaster. The lecture shows how that process works.

IV.) RESEARCH IN CAUSAL ANALYSIS

 1.) Causal factors theory
2.) Initiation of a defense mechanism
3.) Physical and/or psychological trauma
4.) Aggression phenomenon
5.) Task-oriented attack
6.) Adjustive demand
7.) Individuals regulatory resources
8.) When attack is assault
9.) Legacy of aggression
10.) Catalyst Theory
11.) Conversion reaction formation
12.) Channeling Theory
13.) Role-playing and Psychodrama
14.) Integration of Learning
15.) Application of theory to practice