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The Neufeld Scientific Research Centre

Traffic Circle Model of Frustration

The work of frustration

  • Dollard, J., Doob, L.W., Miller, N.E., Mowrer, O.H. and Sears, R.R. (1939). Frustration and Aggression. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Sears, R. (1941). Non-Aggressive Reactions to Frustration, Psychological Review, 48, 343-346.

  • Panksepp, J. (2012). The Archeology of Mind: neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions. New York: Norton.

  • van der Dennen, J. (2005). Frustration and Aggression (F-A) Theory, Default Journal : https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2908668/a-fat.pdf 

The impact of defendedness

  • Freud, S. (1901). Psychopathology of Everyday Life, W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Van der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. NY: Penguin Random House.

  • Maslow, A.(1968). Toward a Psychology of Being, (1st edition, 1962; 2nd edition, 1968)

  • LeDoux, J. (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Touchstone, NY: Rockefeller Centre.

  • James, W. (1884). ‘What is an Emotion?’, Mind 9 (34), pp. 188-205.

  • Schore, A. (1994).  Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  • Ramachandran, V. S. and Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms of in the Brain – probing the mysteries of the human mind. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

  • Rank, Otto. 1929-31. Will Therapy. W. W. Norton (1978)

Sources of attachment frustration

  • Bowlby, J. (1973). Separation: Anxiety & Anger. Attachment and Loss (vol. 2); (International psycho-analytical library no.95). London: Hogarth Press. 
  • Bowlby J. (1980). Loss: Sadness & Depression. Attachment and Loss (vol. 3); (International psycho-analytical library no.109). London: Hogarth Press. 
  • Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment, Second Edition, Basic Books.
  • Rutter, M. (1971). Parent-child separation: psychological effects on the children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12, 233 – 256. 

How to read aggression

  • Dollard, J., Doob, L.W., Miller, N.E., Mowrer, O.H. and Sears, R.R. (1939). Frustration and Aggression. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Sears, R. (1941). Non-Aggressive Reactions to Frustration, Psychological Review, 48, 343-346.

Three common mistakes to avoid

  • Kohn, A. (2006). Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Other possible solutions to frustration

  • Sears, R. (1941). Non-Aggressive Reactions to Frustration, Psychological Review, 48, 343-346.

     

Adaptation as a solution to the aggression problem

  • Konner, M. (2010). The Evolution of Childhood: relationships, emotion, mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

  • Frey, W. (1985). Crying: the mystery of tears. Minneapolis: Winston Press.

  • Vingerhoet, A. (2013). Why only Humans Weep: unraveling the mystery of tears”.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Agression – soften the heart (including through play)

  • DiCenso, A., Guyatt, G., Willan, A.  & Griffith, L. (2002). Intervention to reduce unintended pregnancies among adolescents: systematic review of randomized controlled trials. British Medical Journal in June, vol 324. 
  • Resnick, M. et al. (1997). Protecting Adolescents from Harm: findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, Journal of the American Medical Association September.

  • Panksepp, J. (2010). The Importance of Play Brain World Digital, January 2010.

  • Panksepp, J. (2012). The Archeology of Mind: neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions. New York: Norton.