The roots of violence: Converging psychoanalytic explanatory models for power struggles and violence in schools

This paper demonstrates that several psychoanalytic models taken together c onverge to collectively explain school violence and power struggles better than each does alone. Using my own experience in doing psychoanalytically i nformed community intervention, I approach the problem of school violence f rom a combination of Adlerian, Stollerian, dialectical social systems, and klein-Bion perspectives. This integrated model is then applied to the Colum bine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado.