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Author Barlett, Steven James

Title The pathology of man : a study of human evil / by Steven James Bartlett ; with a foreward by Eric A. Zillmer and Irving Greenberg
Published Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages)
Contents The pathology of mana study of human evil; contents; part i pathology and man; chapter 1 pathology and theories of disease; chapter 2 pathology, politics, and clinical judgment; chapter 3 framework-relative pathology; chapter 4 epidemiology, universal pathology, and therapy; chapter 5 pathology and the concept of evil; part ii the psychology of human evil; chapter 6 freud and the pathology of aggression; chapter 7 jung's understanding of human evil; chapter 8 recent psychiatry and human evil:; chapter 9 the quantitative historyof human self-destructiveness
Chapter 10 the pathology of a species: ethology and human evilchapter 11 toward a unified psychology of genocide; chapter 12 the holocaust and human evil; chapter 13 the psychology of terrorism and human evil; chapter 14 the popularity of war and its role in human evil; chapter 15 "we are sheep ..." -obedience and human evil; chapter 16 the phenomenology of hatred; chapter 17 the ecological pathology of man; chapter 18 moral intelligence and the pathology of human stupidity; part iii the conceptual pathology of man; chapter 19 the pathology of everyday thought
Chapter 20 relativism, framework-relativity, and human evilchapter 21 reflections; references; index
Summary The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil deals with a topic that is both timely and of enduring importance. Due to the recent terrorist attacks, academics, the lay public, the media, even the U.S. president, have revived the use of the word "evil," which now appears with a noticeably increased frequency in much of the daily news and commentary. Professionals particularly in the fields of psychology, sociology, and philosophy are being asked for answers to the questions, Why is there human evil? What are its causes? How are we to understand individuals who wish to inflict human suffering and
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Subject Good and evil -- Psychological aspects
Pathology.
Pathology
pathology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Good and evil -- Psychological aspects
Pathology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780398084875
0398084874