Of Mind and Murder - Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust

Of Mind and Murder traces the history of psychological attempts to understand the Holocaust and critically assesses the existing literature. As the dominance of the situationist interpretation of the psychology of the Holocaust popularized by Milgram wanes, Of Mind and Murder suggests some possible paths forward to a new psychology of the Holocaust.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: What Was the Holocaust?


• Chapter 2: The Holocaust: A Brief History of Psychological Explanation


• Chapter 3: Matters of Method: Issues and Problems in the Psychological Study of the Holocaust


• Chapter 4: Clinical/Abnormal Perspectives


• Chapter 5: Personality


• Chapter 6: Learning and Conditioning


• Chapter 7: Cognition and Memory


• Chapter 8: Age and Development


• Chapter 9: Social Psychology


• Chapter 10: In the Aftermath


• Chapter 11: Psychology, Context, and the Risk of Genocide: Japanese Evacuation and Confinement


• Chapter 12: The Psychology of The Holocaust in Perspective

About the author

George Mastroianni was trained as an experimental psychologist and conducted empirical research in a variety of areas related to human performance as an Army scientist. He taught a variety of subjects in psychology at the US Air Force Academy in twenty years of classroom teaching, and now teaches leadership in the Psychology of Leadership Program at Pennsylvania State University.

Summary

Of Mind and Murder traces the history of psychological attempts to understand the Holocaust and critically assesses the existing literature. As the dominance of the situationist interpretation of the psychology of the Holocaust popularized by Milgram wanes, Of Mind and Murder suggests some possible paths forward to a new psychology of the Holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: George R Mastroianni, George R. Mastroianni, George R. (Professor Emeritus of Psyc Mastroianni, George R. (Professor Emeritus of Psychology Mastroianni
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780190638238
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063823-8
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Political science & theory, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social, group or collective psychology, Political science and theory, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust