Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 7-10
Aggression in children and adolescents
- Psychiatrická ambulance, Neurologická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha
Aggression (aggredere = go against) is a multidimensional overall term, which includes simple forms of irritation and anger, through complicated complexes of hostile aggressive behaviour up to violence. “Aggredi” = “ad gredi” and it means “to walk”, “to get closer to someone”, “to get into contact”. It is not clear from a primary sense of the word, which feelings, motivations and aim is the aggression, as a “mutual getting closer”, connected with. Whether it is a positive contact or a destructive attack (Frielingsdorf). Growing violence in both public and private life, wars, national slaughters are connected by the word aggression and aggressiveness with violence and brutality.
Keywords: Key words: definition, overview of aggression – inducing factors, treatment of aggression.
Published: February 1, 2006 Show citation
