What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand and small, we ask ourselves, baffled, how such horrors can happen how human beings seemingly like ourselves can commit such atrocities. The answer, I. W. Charny suggests in this important new work, may be found in each one of us, in the different and distinct ways in which we organize our minds.
An internationally recognized scholar of the psychology of violence, Charny defines two paradigms of mental organization, the democratic and the...
What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand a...
The effects of the Holocaust on those who survived it are immeasurable. How can one experience the trauma of the concentration camps--being reduced to a helpless witness of the brutality of torture, medical experiments, and execution of those around you--how can one survive this and remain the same? In many ways the Holocaust has drastically effected those who survived, and in Holding on to Humanity Shamai Davidson explores the complex results of this dehumanizing experience.
As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Israel, Davidson spent 30 years working with this special...
The effects of the Holocaust on those who survived it are immeasurable. How can one experience the trauma of the concentration camps--being reduced...
This volume aims to offer therapists a profound and original way of thinking about marital therapy and the marital process and explains many perplexing phenomena, such as why better communication so often leads to greater disturbance in marriage. Guided by this knowledge of the existential limitations of all people in our common human condition, and his insight into the dialectics of process, Dr Charny describes how each couple creates a unique system in the interactions of their strengths and weaknesses with one another. He also offers an unusual way of understanding the unique code of each...
This volume aims to offer therapists a profound and original way of thinking about marital therapy and the marital process and explains many perplexin...
What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand and small, we ask ourselves, baffled, how such horrors can happen-how human beings seemingly like ourselves can commit such atrocities. The answer, I. W. Charny suggests in this important new work, may be found in each one of us, in the different and distinct ways in which we organize our minds. An internationally recognized scholar of the psychology of violence, Charny defines two paradigms of mental organization, the democratic and the fascist,...
What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand a...
The Widening Circle of Genocide, the third volume of an award-winning series, combines an encyclopedic summary of knowledge of the subject with annotated citations of literature in each field of study. It includes contributions by R.J. Rummel, Leonard Glick, Vahakn Dadrian, Rosanne Klass, Martin Van Bruinessen, James Dunn, Gabrielle Tyrnauer, Robert Krell, George Kent, Samuel Totten, and a foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz.
This volume presents scholarship on a variety of topics, including: Germany's records of the Armenian genocide; little-known cases of contemporary...
The Widening Circle of Genocide, the third volume of an award-winning series, combines an encyclopedic summary of knowledge of the subject...
Israel W. Charny George R. Andrews Herrick Chapman
The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Japan, The Social Construction of Democracy explores the reasons for the success and failure of democracies over the past 100 years. With its sharp portraits of nations on four continents, George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman shed light on the historical process by which state institutions and...
The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origin...
In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide either directly, through killing or other violent acts, or indirectly, by sitting passively while witnessing genocidal acts. Charny draws on both historical and current examples such as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, and presses readers around the world to consider how they might contribute to genocide. Given the number of people who die from genocide or suffer indirect consequences such as forced migration, Charny argues that we must all work to resist and to...
In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide either directly, through ...
This memoir recalls Yervant Alexanian's death-defying experiences in the center of the Armenian Genocide. Like other Armenians of his generation, he was an eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and fellow countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during World War I. Alexanian was conscripted into the Turkish army--but unlike others so conscripted, he survived.
Alexanian was forced to become an onlooker while he watched the atrocities unfold. His story of resourceful action and fateful turns is a suspenseful -insider's account- of a Genocide survivor. From his singular...
This memoir recalls Yervant Alexanian's death-defying experiences in the center of the Armenian Genocide. Like other Armenians of his generation, h...
A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives her life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can inflict on herself or others. In this book, I.W. Charny provides a new lens for understanding regular people rather than treatments that alleviate symptoms.
A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives her life, and on the extent of harm that...
