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- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
©2019 - Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780190638238
0190638230 - Physical Description
- xxxi, 418 pages ; 25 cm
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- 2019-04-10 16:00:00
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