RYAN McNAMARA

Each frame in McNamara's piece reminds me of a cell in the multifaceted fly-eye of a demon in our culture -- the Left, mutated beyond recognition by ingesting its own poison, showing us its full-bleed bulging ugliness -- the cyclopian eye of a giant baby in perpetual tantrum that its priveleged [sic] world has been torn open by reality and truth.

-Jerome DuBois, "The Tears of Things"

To respond effectively to overly aggressive behavior in children we need to have some ideas about what may have triggered an outburst. Anger may be a defense to avoid painful feelings; it may be associated with failure, low self-esteem, and feelings of isolation; or it may be related to anxiety about situations over which the child has no control.