Of Mind and Murder: Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust George R. Mastroianni

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190638230
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190638238
• Author(s): George R. Mastroianni

How could the Holocaust have happened? How can people do such things to other people? Questions such as these have animated discussion of the Holocaust from our earliest awareness of what had happened. These questions have engaged the lay public as well as academics from many different fields. Psychologists have taken an active role in trying to understand and explain the motivation, thinking, and behavior of all those involved in and affected by the Holocaust.

The present volume is, in part, an attempt to provide a kind of historical roadmap to the diverse psychological explanations and interpretations that have been developed by psychologists over the last several decades. While many psychological discussions of the Holocaust dismiss or diminish the significance of work that antedates the Milgram obedience experiments in the early 1960s, this book engages some of these earlier formulations in detail. It strives to be, in this sense, a more complete history of psychological thought on the Holocaust. As many psychologists now accept the idea that a comprehensive psychology of the Holocaust must include more than social influence, the book addresses the question, “What, then?”

Table contents:

Introduction
1. What Was the Holocaust?
2. The Holocaust: A Brief History of Psychological Explanation
3. Matters of Method: Issues and Problems in the Psychological Study of the Holocaust
4. Clinical/Abnormal Perspectives
5. Personality
6. Learning and Conditioning
7. Cognition and Memory
8. Age and Development
9. Social Psychology
10. In the Aftermath
11. Psychology, Context, and the Risk of Genocide: Japanese Evacuation and Confinement
12. The Psychology of the Holocaust in Perspective
Index

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