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Fascism and democracy in the human mind : a bridge between mind and society /
What might you have done if you had been caught up in the Holocaust? In My Lai? In Rwanda? Confronted with acts of violence and evil on scales grand and small, we ask ourselves, baffled, how such horrors can happen-how human beings seemingly like ourselves can commit such atrocities. The answer, I.W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2006.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A new bridge between mind and society
- Part I: The choice between fascism and democracy in everyday life in the individual mind, the family, and society : 1. What is the original "mind software" we humans receive at the "factory"?
- 2. The choice between fascist mind and democratic mind: what chance do we have of changing our "fascist minds" to "democratic minds"?
- 3. The fascist believer: totality, overcertainty, and suppression of information
- 4. The fascist slave: obedience, conformity, and intolerance of dissent
- 5. The fascist fist: superiority, excessive power, and violence against self and others
- 6. The fascist denier: "I never did any harm": denials of doing harm to oneself or to others
- Part II. Overcoming and growing beyond the seductions of fascism in mind and society : 7. Democratic mind as the healthy alternative to fascist mind: the joy of life process and opportunity
- 8. Psychotherapy as antifascism and training for democracy
- 9. Discovering applications of democratic mind in everyday life
- 10. A unified theory of democratic mind in the self, family, and society: a vision of more decent human beings who do less harm to themselves and others
- Conclusion: The care and maintenance of the bridge between mind and society
- Epilogue: My background both as a psychotherapist and as a peace researcher studying genocide.