Psychopathology and world politics /
This unique work looks at the relationship between psychopathology and world politics. What happens when the brain/mind ceases to function properly? How does this impinge on world affairs? What is to be done, for example, when a leader ceases to act in a seemingly sane fashion and yet still commands...
| Основен автор: | Pettman, Ralph. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
2012.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=521252 |
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Print version::
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND WORLD POLITICS. |
Съдържание:
- Preface; About the Author; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: What is Psychopathology?; Who is Normal and Who is Not?; The Political Implications of Defining Normality; The Modernist Conception of Consciousness; Organic or Physical Causes; Mental or Psychological Causes; Chapter 2: Psychopathology and World Politics; Psychopathological Approaches as Reductionist; Psychopathological Approaches as Not Reductionist; The Modernist Project Again; Global Conflict; Global Conflict and the Unconscious; International Politicians and Psychopathology; Richard Nixon; Adolf Hitler.
- Psychopathology and International PoliticiansParanoia; Narcissism; Hysteria; Phallocentrism; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Denial; Forms of Denial; Benign denial; Pathological denial; The Psychoanalytic Concept of Denial; Beyond the Psychoanalytic Concept of Denial; Stages of Denial; The Cultural Component of Denial; The Psychopathology of Nuclear Deterrence; Who is Most "In Denial" Here?; Publics; Strategists; Decision-makers; How Sane are State Leaders?; Masochism and Sadism; What is to Be Done?; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Truth; What Purpose Does Truth-Telling Ostensibly Serve?; What is Truth?
- Modernity Yet Again, and Its Various ArticulationsThe "Truth" About "Japan" and Japanese Approaches to Conflict Resolution; What is "Japan"?; The "truth" about Japan as a modernist culture; The "truth" about Japan as a traditionalist culture; The "truth" about Japan as a hybrid culture; A "Japanese" approach to the global issue of conflict resolution; Japanese modernism and the truth about conflict resolution; Japanese traditionalism and the truth about conflict resolution; Japanese hybridity and the truth about conflict resolution; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Delusion.
- Defining Delusion: The Lay ApproachDefining Delusion: The Medical Approach; Defining Delusion: The Problem with "Falsity"; Societal Delusions; Is Pragmatism the Best Way Forward?; The Epistemological Issues that Pragmatism Hides; The Most Radical Epistemological Issue of Them All: The "God Delusion"; The Atheist's Argument; Defining "god" in a self-serving way; Defining "god" in a non-self-serving way; Bohm's Implicate Order; Rees's Six Cosmic Numbers; Taylor's Epiphany; Is the potential for an epiphany part of the brain's "hard-wiring"?; A Third Way?; The Atheists' Fallback Position.
- The Mystic RejoinderConclusion; Chapter 6: Reality; Modernity and Reality; The Solomon Islands; Reality Construed in Terms of the "West" as Opposed to the "Rest"; The Solomon Islands: Competing conceptions of a politico-cultural reality; The Solomon Islands: Competing conceptions of the politico-strategic reality; The Solomon Islands: Competing conceptions of the politico-economic reality; The Solomon Islands: Competing conceptions of the politico-social reality; Conclusion; Conclusion; References; Index.