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Of mind and murder : toward a more comprehensive psychology of the Holocaust / George R. Mastroianni.
LIBRA D804.3 .M3735 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mastroianni, George, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 418 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: What was the Holocaust?
- Chapter 2: The Holocaust: a brief history of psychological explanation
- Chapter 3: Matters of method: issues and problems in the psychological study of the Holocaust
- Chapter 4: Clinical/abnormal perspectives
- Chapter 5: Personality
- Chapter 6: Learning and conditioning
- Chapter 7: Cognition and memory
- Chapter 8: Age and development
- Chapter 9: Social psychology
- Chapter 10: In the aftermath
- Chapter 11: Psychology, context, and the risk of genocide: Japanese evacuation and confinement
- Chapter 12: The psychology of the Holocaust in perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780190638238
- 0190638230
- OCLC:
- 1028606557
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