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Author:

Mastroianni, George, author.

Title:

Of mind and murder : toward a more comprehensive psychology of the Holocaust / George R. Mastroianni.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxxi, 418 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
Psychological aspects.
National socialism--Psychological aspects.
Political psychology--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Psychological aspects.
1939-1945

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What was the Holocaust? -- The Holocaust: a brief history of psychological explanation -- Matters of method: issues and problems in the psychological study of the Holocaust -- Clinical/abnormal perspectives -- Personality -- Learning and conditioning -- Cognition and memory -- Age and development -- Social psychology -- In the aftermath -- Psychology, context, and the risk of genocide: Japanese evacuation and confinement -- The psychology of the Holocaust in perspective.

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.

ISBN:

0190638230
9780190638238

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1061267719

LCCN:

2018009285

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)