On killing : the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society /
| Основен автор: | Grossman, Dave. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boston :
Little, Brown,
c1996.
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| Издание: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- Sec. 1. Killing and the existence of resistance : a world of virgins studying sex. Chap. 1. Fight or flights, posture or submit
- Chap. 2. Nonfirers throughout history
- Chap. 3. Why can't Johnny kill?
- Chap. 4. The nature and source of resistance
- Sec. 2. Killing and combat trauma : the role of killing in psychiatric casualties
- Chap. 1. The nature of psychiatric casualties : the psychological price of war
- Chap. 2. The reign of fear
- Chap. 3. The weight of exhaustion
- Chap. 4. The mud of guilt and horror
- Chap. 5. The wind of hate
- Chap. 6. The well of fortitude
- Chap. 7. The burden of killing
- Chap. 8. The blind men and the elephant
- Sec. 3. Killing and physical distance : from a distance, you don't look anything like a friend. Chap. 1. Distance : a qualitative distinction in death
- Chap. 2. Killing at maximum and long range : never a need for repentance or regret
- Chap. 3. Killing at mid- and hand-grenade range : "you can never be sure it was you"
- Chap. 4. Killing at close range : "I knew that it was up to me, personally, to kill him"
- Chap. 5. Killing at edged-weapons range : an "intimate brutality"
- Chap. 6. Killing at hand-to-hand combat range
- Chap. 7. Killing at sexual range : "the primal aggression, the release, and orgasmic discharge"
- Sec. 4. An anatomy of killing : all factors considered. Chap. 1. The demands of authority : Milgram and the military
- Chap. 2. Group absolution : "the individual is not a killer, but the group is"
- Chap. 3. Emotional distance : "to me they were less than animals"
- Chap. 4. The nature of the victim : relevance and payoff
- Chap. 5. Aggressive predisposition of the killer : avengers, conditioning, and the 2 percent who like it
- Chap. 6. All factors considered : the mathematics of death
- Sec. 5. Killing and atrocities : "no honor here, no virtue." Chap. 1. The full spectrum of atrocity
- Chap. 2. The dark power of atrocity
- Chap. 3. The entrapment of atrocity
- Chap. 4. A case study in atrocity
- Chap. 5. The greatest trap of all : to live with that which thou hath wrought
- Sec. 6. Chap. 1. The killing response stages
- Chap. 2. Applications of the model : murder-suicides, lost elections, and thoughts of insanity
- Sec. 7. Chap. 1. Desensitization and conditioning in Vietnam : overcoming the resistance to killing
- Chap. 2. What have we done to our soldiers? : the rationalization of killing and how it failed in Vietnam
- Chap. 3. Post-traumatic stress disorder and the cost of killing in Vietnam
- Chap. 4. The limits of human endurance and the lessons of Vietnam
- Sec. 8. Killing in America : what are we doing to our children? Chap. 1. A virus of violence
- Chap. 2. Desensitization and Pavlov's dog at the movies
- Chap. 3. B.F. Skinner's rats and operant conditioning at the video arcade
- Chap. 4. Social learning and role models in the media
- Chap. 5. The resensitization of America.