A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence: The Holocaust, Group Hallucinosis and False Beliefs

ISBN-13: 9781138625280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 156 str.

Bennett Roth

Opis

A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence makes an analytic examination of the enactment of genocide by Nazi Germany during World War Two to explore how mass and state-sponsored violence can arise within societies and how the false beliefs that are used to justify such actions are propagated within society. Bennett Roth makes use of Bion’s concept of ‘Hallucinosisi’ to describe the formation of false group beliefs that lead to murderous violence.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The problems with Freud’s Group Theory Chapter 2: The Role of Non-Kin Cooperation, Weapons that Kill at a Distance and Shared Beliefs in Group Formation Chapter 3: A New evolutionary Basis of Group Development Chapter 4: War Group Development and the Nazi Path to Violence Chapter 5: The Nazi Platform of Group Hallucinosis Chapter 6: Hallucinosis and Perversions Chapter 7: The Historical range of Mass Murder Chapter 8: Summary and the Imaginary Nation Chapter 9: Addenda; Bibliography; Appendix A: Himmler’s Speech at Poznan; Appendix B: Friedrich Jecklen; Appendix C: The Kovno Massacre; Appendix D: EinsatzGruppen

O autorze

Bennett Roth, PhD, is a Faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital and maintains a private practice in New York City, USA. He has lectured internationally on group therapy, psychoanalysis and film, and on the work of Wilfred Bion.