The Genocidal Mentality
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Author | : Robert J. Lifton |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1991-11-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780465026630 |
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Examines the cast of mind that created and maintains the nuclear threat and suggests an alternative direction.
Author | : Donald G. Dutton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313071497 |
Download The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means that leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific acts in the name of a politial or military cause. Massacres in Nanking, Rwanda, El Salvador, Vietnam, and other countries are reviewed in chilling detail. But the core issue is what psychological forces are behind large- scale killing; what psychology can be used to indoctrinate normal people with a Groupthink that moves individuals to mass murder brutally and without regret, even when the victims are innocent children. Dutton shows us how individuals are convinced to commit such sadistic acts, often preceded by torture, after being indoctrinated with beliefs that the target victims are unjust, inhuman or viral, like a virus that must be destroyed or it will destroy society.
Author | : Jack Nusan Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The Genocidal Mind offers unique and under-explored analyses of the Holocaust and the phenomenon of 20th century genocide within a sociological framework. With reference to contemporary scholarly work and using the latest in social structural, psychoanalytical, post-modern, chaos, and uncertainty theory, Dr. Porter attempts to explain why people dehumanize and kill other innocent people. The author also probes the deviant, sexual side of the Nazi party, including the mind of Adolf Hitler.
Author | : Ivan Krivoushin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abram de Swaan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300210671 |
Download The Killing Compartments Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that focuses on the rank-and-file perpetrators, examining how murderous regimes recruit them and create what De Swaan calls the "killing compartments” that make possible the worst abominations without apparent moral misgiving, without a sense of personal responsibility, and, above all, without pity. De Swaan wonders where extreme violence comes from and where it goes—seemingly without a trace—when the wild and barbaric gore is over. And what about the perpetrators themselves? Are they merely and only the product of external circumstance? Or is there something in their makeup that disposes them to become mass murderers? Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and psychology, De Swaan sheds new light on an urgent and intractable pathology that continues to poison peoples all over the world.
Author | : Dennis B. Klein |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2005-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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If we wish to recognize the genocidal mentality, the authors maintain, we must reckon not only with the increased callousness of the killers, but also with their misguided conviction that they were engaged in something constructive to humanity.
Author | : Robert Jay Lifton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2000 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leonard S. Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2019-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190685948 |
Download Confronting Humanity at Its Worst Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How do otherwise ordinary people become perpetrators of genocide? Why are groups targeted for mass killing? How do groups justify these terrible acts? While there are no easy answers to these questions, social psychologists are especially well positioned to contribute to our understanding of genocide and mass killing. With research targeting key questions -such as how negative impressions of outgroups develop and how social influence can lead people to violate their moral principles and other norms - social psychologists have much to teach us about why groups of people attempt to exterminate other groups, why people participate in such atrocious projects, and how they live with themselves afterwards. By bringing together research previously available only to readers of academic journals, this volume sheds crucial light on human behavior at the extremes and in doing so, helps us take one more step towards preventing future tragedies.
Author | : Richard Morrock |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786456280 |
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The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people killed in acts of war and persecution ranging from the Herero and Namaqua genocide in present-day Namibia during the early 1900s to the ongoing conflict in Darfur. This book explores the root causes of genocide, looking into the underlying psychology of violence and oppression. Genocide does not simply occur at the hands of tyrannical despots, but rather at the hands of ordinary citizens whose unresolved pain and oppression forces them to follow a leader whose demagogy best expresses their own long-developed prejudices and fears. The book explains how birth trauma, childhood trauma, and authoritarian education can be seen as the true causes of genocidal periods in recent history.
Author | : Leonard S. Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2002-09-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0195350847 |
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When and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genocide? Why do some individuals come to the rescue of members of targeted groups, while others just passively observe their victimization? And how do perpetrators and bystanders later come to terms with the choices that they made? These questions have long vexed scholars and laypeople alike, and they have not decreased in urgency as we enter the twenty-first century. In this book--the first collection of essays representing social psychological perspectives on genocide and the Holocaust-- prominent social psychologists use the principles derived from contemporary research in their field to try to shed light on the behavior of the perpetrators of genocide. The primary focus of this volume is on the Holocaust, but the conclusions reached have relevance for attempts to understand any episode of mass killing. Among the topics covered are how crises and difficult life conditions might set the stage for violent intergroup conflict; why some groups are more likely than others to be selected as scapegoats; how certain cultural values and beliefs could facilitate the initiation of genocide; the roles of conformity and obedience to authority in shaping behavior; how engaging in violent behavior makes it easier to for one to aggress again; the evidence for a "genocide-prone" personality; and how perpetrators deceive themselves about what they have done. The book does not culminate in a grand theory of intergroup violence; instead, it seeks to provide the reader with new ways of making sense of the horrors of genocide. In other words, the goal of all of the contributors is to provide us with at least some of the knowledge that we will need to anticipate and prevent future such tragic episodes.