Of mind and murder : toward a more comprehensive psychology of the Holocaust / George R. Mastroianni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mastroianni, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 418 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

How could the Holocaust have happened? How could people do such things to other people? Were all or most of the perpetrators insane? Are psychologically normal people capable of committing such unspeakable violence? Were Germans willing participants in the genocidal enterprise, or were they mainly influenced by evil leaders? Is the potential for genocidal behaviour universal - could something like the Holocaust happen anywhere, anytime? Such questions have motivated much discussion of the Holocaust, and psychologists have been contributing to the discussion from the very beginning. 'Of Mind and Murder' provides a brief reminder as to what the Holocaust was, and it offers a detailed look at the major approaches taken by psychologists in their attempts to explain the behaviour of those caught up in the Holocaust.

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:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-063825-7

0-19-063824-9

0-19-063826-5