| Description |
xv, 359 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Eric A. Zillmer and Irving Greenberg -- Ch. 1. Pathology and theories of disease -- Ch. 2. Pathology, politics, and clinical judgment -- Ch. 3. Framework-relative pathology -- Ch. 4. Epidemiology, universal pathology, and therapy -- Ch. 5. Pathology and the concept of evil -- Ch. 6. Freud and the pathology of aggression -- Ch. 7. Jung's understanding of human evil -- Ch. 8. Recent psychiatry and human evil : Menninger, Fromm, and Peck -- Ch. 9. The quantitative history of human self-destructiveness -- Ch. 10. The pathology of a species : ethology and human evil -- Ch. 11. Toward a unified psychology of genocide -- Ch. 12. The Holocaust and human evil -- Ch. 13. The psychology of terrorism and human evil -- Ch. 14. The popularity of war and its role in human evil -- Ch. 15. "We are sheep..." - obedience and human evil -- Ch. 16. The phenomenology of hatred -- Ch. 17. The ecological pathology of man -- Ch. 18. Moral intelligence and the pathology of human stupidity |
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Ch. 19. The pathology of everyday thought -- Ch. 20. Relativism, framework-relativity, and human evil -- Ch. 21. Reflections |
| Summary |
"The Pathology of Man is the first comprehensive study of the psychology and epistemology of human evil, long urged by leading psychiatrists and psychologists, including Freud, Jung, Menninger, Fromm, and Peck. The book breaks new ground by offering a clear, empirically based, and theoretically sound understanding of human evil as a widespead, real, non-metaphorical pathology. With deliberate and thorough scholarship, the author proposes a new framework relative theory of disease and justifies the thesis that human evil should be classified as a pathology which is not a deviation from an accepted norm, but rather is a normal state."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index |
| Subject |
Good and evil -- Psychological aspects.
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Pathology.
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| LC no. |
2004063718 |
| ISBN |
0398075573 |
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0398075581 paperback |
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