pt. 1. The ultimate limit -- Trauma and reintegration -- German concentration camps -- Individual and mass behavior in extreme situations -- The Holocaust -one generation later -- "Owners of their faces" -- Schizophrenia as a reaction to extreme situations -- pt. 2. Education and the reality principle -- The decision to fail -- About Summerhill -- Violence: a neglected mode of behavior -- Mental health and urban design -- Growing up female -- pt. 3. Unconscious contributions to one's undoing -- The ignored lesson of Anne Frank -- Eichmann: the system, the victims -- Surviving -- pt. 4. Remarks on the psychological appeal of totalitarianism -- Alienation and autonomy -- Obsolete youth -- About the sexual revolution -- Portnoy psychoanalyzed -- Some comments on privacy -- Art and art education: a personal vision.
Summary
Includes sections on Adolf Eichmann and Totalitarianism.