ABSTRACT
“Professor Alvarez, thank you very much. You’ve certainly given us plenty of food for thought. I have been fortunate to have access to the paper before the conference, but what you have done is try to get us to think about which violence and whose violence, essentially sub-categorizing different ways of thinking about violence and then to think about violence in the context of object relationships. You’ve talked about children and their violent activities towards things and towards other people, but I wondered whether or not you feel the model you are suggesting would work in the context of self harm.
