From sanguinarians who drink blood, to psychic vampires who suck the energy from those around them, The Psychology of Vampires explores the absorbing connections between vampirism and psychology, theology, medicine and culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Aperitif - The Vampires' Favourite Ice Cream
Chapter 1- Poor Polidori and the Human Jam
Chapter 2 The Early History of Vampires.
Chapter 3 Dracula on the couch
Chapter 4 - The doctor who wanted to be something different
Chapter 5 - The Vampire develops and the poet flees from the bailiffs
Chapter 6 - Dip the Pen in Blood
Chapter 7 - Theology, Child Abuse - and the vampire 'syndrome'
Chapter 8 - The First Proper Story
Chapter 9 - Sucking out energy - the passive aggressive personality
Chapter 10 - In Print
Chapter 11 - Vampires on the ward
Chapter 12 - A modern Oedipus, Bloodletting and three more deaths
Chapter 13 - Polidori's cultural legacy
