Of Mind and Murder: Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust

ISBN-13: 9780190638238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 456 str.

George R. Mastroianni

Opis

Of Mind and Murder traces the history of psychological attempts to understand the Holocaust and critically assesses the existing literature. As the dominance of the situationist interpretation of the psychology of the Holocaust popularized by Milgram wanes, Of Mind and Murder suggests some possible paths forward to a new psychology of the Holocaust.

Recenzje

At once a riveting critical history of the discipline of psychology and a masterful nuanced analysis of the most important psychological theories about Nazism and the Holocaust, Of Mind and Murder is consistently lucid and hugely informative. The deleterious consequences of long-term exposure to lies, the role of threatened narcissism, the impact of prejudice and the management of cognitive dissonance, the routinization of cruelty and the self-interested distortions of memory: all of these issues remain painfully urgent, and Mastroianni's book provides a superb, indispensable guide.

O autorze

George Mastroianni was trained as an experimental psychologist and conducted empirical research in a variety of areas related to human performance as an Army scientist. He taught a variety of subjects in psychology at the US Air Force Academy in twenty years of classroom teaching, and now teaches leadership in the Psychology of Leadership Program at Pennsylvania State University.