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Published Online: October 1971

Aggression, Mythology, and the College Student

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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Conflicts about aggression are among the most significant problems that students encounter. They must face these conflicts within the framework of crucial developmental tasks such as the achievement of identity, intimacy, and maturity. The incorporation of conflicts about aggression into a complicated and distorted belief system or family mythology is a common phenomenon. An appreciation of this mythology is an important step in understanding the student's individual and family psychodynamics.

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Pages: 466 - 472
PubMed: 5098613

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Published in print: October 1971
Published online: 1 April 2006

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JAMES B. RAYBIN
Chief Psychiatrist, University of Denver Health Service, 2040 S. Josephine St., Denver, Colo. 80210 and Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences, University of Denver, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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