The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture

ISBN-13: 9780415282765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 296 str.

Mika Haritos-Fatouros

Opis

What kind of person is the state-sanctioned torturer? Under what conditions do governments use torture and violence against their own citizens? This volume shows that under the right conditions even the most righteous among us can become torturers and killers. Approaching the subject through applied social psychology, the book links research on the torturers of the Greek military dictatorship and their victims to psychological studies of authoritarianism, conventionalism, social learning and cognitive theory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Approach and Methodology 3. The Greek Situation 4. Transforming Ordinary Men into Torturers 5. Case Study of a Chief Torturer 6. Dispositional Factors in Greek Torturers: Are They Enough Explanation 7. The Psychological Theories of the Origins of Torture 8. Reconstruction Processes 9. Parallels to Comparisons 10. Epilogue

O autorze

Mika Haritos-Fatouros is Professor of Psychology at the University of Thessalonica, Greece. She studied psychology and psychotherapy at universities in London, Oxford and Thessalonica, and has held visiting appointments at universities in the USA, Europe and Australia. She is President Elect of the European Association of Counselling and Honorary President of the Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims in Thessalonica. She has published works on the subjects of psychotherapy, populations in crisis, women's issues and the psychology of state torturers, and is co-author of the forthcoming book on 'Violence Workers', which will be published by University of California Press.